The Meaning of understand

• (v. t.) To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
• (v. t.) To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
• (v. t.) To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
• (v. t.) To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
• (v. t.) To stand under; to support.
• (v. i.) To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
• (v. i.) To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.

Synonyms

realize , realise , see , read , interpret , translate , infer , sympathize , sympathise , empathize , empathise

Rhymes

ampersand , armband , backhand , band , bandstand , banned , beforehand , bland , bourland , brand , brande , broadband , canned , chand , command , contraband , cropland , deland , demand , disband , dixieland , dreamland , expand , fairyland , fanned , farmhand , farmland , fatherland , ferdinand , fernand , finland , firebrand , firsthand , forehand , freehand , gland , goodland , grand , grande , grandstand , grassland , greenland , hand , handstand , headband , heartland , hildebrand , hinterland , homeland , inland , laband , land , lande , lapland , lefthand , longhand , lowland , mainland , mande , manned , marchand , marshland , meadowland , midland , misunderstand , moorland , motherland , newsstand , nightstand , northland , nuland , offhand , outmanned , overland , panned , parkland , planned , queensland , quicksand , rand , remand , reprimand , rhineland , samarkand , sand , secondhand , shadowland , shand , shorthand , somaliland , southland , spanned , stagehand , stand , strand , strande , streisand , tanned , thailand , timberland , undermanned , unmanned , unplanned , vande , wasteland , wetland , withstand , wonderland , woodland