Usually means: Purposeful aim guiding an action.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word intent:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. intent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. intent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. intent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. intent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. intent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Intent, intent, intent: Wordnik
  7. intent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. intent: Wiktionary
  9. intent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. intent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. intent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. intent: Dictionary.com
  13. intent (adj.), intent (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. intent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Intent (Android), Intent (Military), Intent (law), Intent (military), Intent, The Intent (film), The Intent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Intent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. intent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. intent: Rhymezone
  19. Intent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. intent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. intent: Free Dictionary
  22. intent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. intent: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. intent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. intent: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. intent: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  2. intent: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intent: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. intent: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See intently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something that is intended.
noun:  (law) The state of someone’s mind at the time of committing an offence.
adjective:  Firmly fixed or concentrated on something.
adjective:  Engrossed.
adjective:  Unwavering from a course of action.

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