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meant to be

meant to be adjective: destined to exist or occur.

Adjective

meant to be

  1. Destined to exist or occur.
    • Why, look at how long I've been dating Oliver. If it wasn't meant to be, it would have ended a long time ago.1992, Jodi Picoult, Songs of the Humpback Whale, Simon and Schuster, published 2007, →ISBN, page 183
    • From the moment he started dating my mom, I never doubted that it was meant to be.2008 April, “Spring's Star Looks”, in Harpers Bazaar, number 3557, page 213

Questions about meant to be

What does meant to be mean?
Meant to be means destined to exist or occur.
What part of speech is meant to be?
Meant to be is an adjective.

Words near meant to be in the dictionary

  1. meant business
  2. meant everything to
  3. meant the whole world to
  4. meant the world to
  5. meant to
  6. meant to be
  7. meant to say
  8. meant well
  9. meantest
  10. meantime
  11. meantimes

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