acception means “meaning” | MotiTan French Dictionary

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Pour éviter les malentendus, précisez l'acception que vous entendez.

To prevent misunderstandings, specify the meaning you intend.

One word with its meaning selected by the surrounding sentence and situation.

sens: The fundamental meaning or overall sense of a word or expression.
signification: What a word or expression means or conveys.

Emploi particulier ou sens attribué à un mot dans un contexte précis.

French acception inherited the sense of Latin acceptio, formed from accipere, 'to receive', for a word's received or assigned sense.

Acception means a particular word sense, whereas acceptation means approval or acceptance.