All 23 Uses of
mean
in
The Ramayana
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- What mean these signs of rare delight On every side that meet my sight?†
Book 2
- Not all of womankind I mean.†
Book 2 *
- Ah, in a former life, I ween, This hand of mine, most base and mean, Has dried the udders of the kine And left the thirsty calves to pine.†
Book 2
- Unlike myself, unjust and mean Have been my ways with him, my Queen, But like himself is all that he, My noble son, has done to me.†
Book 2
- Their lives the true and boaster show, Pure and impure, and high and low, Else were no mark to judge between Stainless and stained and high and mean; They to whose lot fair signs may fall Were but as they who lack them all, And those to virtuous thoughts inclined Were but as men of evil mind.†
Book 2
- Fight with all strength thou callest thine, Mean scion of ignoble line, Still, like the palm-tree's fruit, this day My shafts thy head in dust shall lay."†
Book 3
- The mean of soul, unknown to fame, Who taint their warrior race with shame, Thus speak in senseless pride as thou, O Raghu's son, hast boasted now.†
Book 3
- A king besotted, mean, unkind, Of niggard hand and slavish mind.†
Book 3
- He, banished by his angry sire, Roams with his wife in mean attire.†
Book 3
- With souls impelled by mean desire Thy foes against thy life conspire.†
Book 3
- If thou, O Ráma, wilt not bear This grief which fills thee with despair, How shall a weaker man e'er hope, Infirm and mean, with woe to cope?†
Book 3
- No, if thy dame be lost or dead, O hero, still be comforted, Nor yield for ever to thy woe O'ermastered like the mean and low.†
Book 3
- The Lord of Hills, where hermits live And love the home his forests give, Whose child is Sankar's darling queen,(568) The King of Snows is he I mean.†
Book 4
- Mean-hearted coward, false and vile, Whose cruel soul delights in guile, Could Dasaratha, noblest king, Beget so mean and base a thing?†
Book 4
- Mean-hearted coward, false and vile, Whose cruel soul delights in guile, Could Dasaratha, noblest king, Beget so mean and base a thing?†
Book 4
- (608) Each is a grievous fault, between The two is found the happy mean.†
Book 4
- But all unmeet a king to be, The meanest of the mean is he Who basely breaks the promise made To trusting friends who lent him aid.†
Book 4
- Brave Ráma, born for glorious fate, Has set thee in thy high estate, And to the Vánars' throne restored, Great-souled himself, their mean-souled lord.†
Book 4
- Let not this wrath thy soul inflame, Like some mean wretch unknown to fame: For high and noble hearts like thine Love mercy and to ruth incline, Calm and deliberate, and slow With anger's raging fire to glow.†
Book 4
- Ah no! his heart is cold and mean, What bids him search for Ráma's queen?†
Book 4
- To every guest, though mean and low.†
Book 5
- (885) Observe the mean where justice lies, And spare his life but still chastise.†
Book 5
- A hero never vaunts in vain, Like bellowing clouds devoid of rain, Nor, Monarch, be thine ear inclined To counsellors of slavish kind, Who with mean arts their king mislead And mar each gallant plan and deed.†
Book 6
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Mean has many more common meanings such as to being unkind, or to intend something. See a comprehensive dictionary for many other meanings.