The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
At a certain point, what people mean when they use a word becomes its meaning.
Words take on many different meanings.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.
The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.
The dictionary is like a time capsule of all of human thinking ever since words began to be written down. And exploring where words have come from can increase your understanding of the words themselves and expand your understanding of how to use the words, and all of this change happens in your thinking when you read the words.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.