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Meanings of significance in English

Portuguese
significado
Catalan
significació
Spanish
significado

The message that is intended or expressed or signified.

significado
Portuguese
significado
Catalan
rellevància
Spanish
significación

The quality of being significant.

significado

A measurement for how important something is for something.

Usage of significance in English
1
Each year World Social Work Day takes on new energy and significance.
The Guardian
2
Photographs, especially missing ones, held a particular significance for her right now.
The lake
3
There is a crisis of political significance before the AAP, he said.
The Guardian
4
I thought maybe there was some special significance to this particular paper.
Naughty neighbor
5
Yet Axl could sense that these new positions had a different significance.
The buried giant
6
However more studies are necessary to document the significance of these findings.
Pubmed
7
Without statistical significance the findings may lead to the following statements: 1.
Pubmed
8
The results hold a rather high significance: this is no opinion poll.
The South African
9
However, EU officials and leaders played down the significance of the move.
Reuters
10
The China issue is nevertheless a huge one with vital long-term significance.
The Irish Times
11
Hard measures are required in order to accomplish anything of true significance.
Navigators of Dune
12
There was no significance as far as the biopsy at 1 year.
Pubmed
13
To be sure, many experts pooh-poohed the wider significance of Knight's problem.
Reuters
14
I understand the significance, the Mediterranean power struggle, the Mid East spillover.
The bourne identity
15
Part of State Highway 1, it is a road of national significance.
Radio NZ
16
However, the potential significance of this report runs deeper than cross-border co-operation.
The Irish Times
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Significance through the time
Significance across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United States of America
Common
New Zealand
Common
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