purpose🔊

The end for which something is done, is made or exists.

Function, role.

(Sense of having a) meaning for existing or doing something.

Resolution; determination. +

(obsolete) The subject of discourse; the point at issue. +

To have or set as one's purpose or aim; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.

To have (an) intention, purpose, or design; to intend; to mean.

(obsolete) To discourse.