"purpose" meaning in All languages combined

See purpose on Wiktionary

Noun [Englisch]

Audio: En-us-purpose.ogg , En-us-purposes.ogg Forms: the purpose [singular], the purposes [plural]
  1. Absicht, Ziel, Zweck, Vorsatz
    Sense id: de-purpose-en-noun-1
  2. Entschlossenheit
    Sense id: de-purpose-en-noun-2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: purposebuilt, purposeful, purposely, purposefully, purposeless Translations (Absicht, Ziel, Zweck, Vorsatz): Absicht (Deutsch), Ziel (Deutsch), Zweck (Deutsch), Vorsatz (Deutsch) Translations (Entschlossenheit): Entschlossenheit (Deutsch)

Inflected forms

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