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==English==

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈpɝpəs/|a=GenAm}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈpɜːpəs/|a=RP}}
* {{rhymes|en|ɜː(ɹ)pəs|s=2}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-purpose.ogg|a=US}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈpɜ.pəs/|/ˈpɜ.poʊs/|q2=proscribed|a=HK}}

===Etymology 1===
From {{inh|en|enm|purpos|}}, from {{der|en|fro|purposer||to [[propose]]}} (with conjugation altered based on {{m|fro|poser}}), from {{der|en|la|prō-||forth}} + {{m|la|pono|pōnere|place, put}}, hence {{der|en|la|propono|prōpōnō, prōpōnere}}.

====Noun====
{{en-noun|~}}

# The [[end]] for which something is [[done]], is [[made]] or [[exist]]s.<!-- M-W 1a, Lexico 1, AHD 1, Collins 1, Macmillan 1-->
#: {{syn|en|end}}<!--also 'aim', 'intention' as {{syn}}s or {{cot}}s?-->
#: {{usex|en|What is the '''purpose''' of your visit?}}
#: {{usex|en|The device can be used for both civilian and military '''purposes'''.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|date=2013-06-07|author=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/edpilkington Ed Pilkington]| volume=188| issue=26| page=6| magazine=w:The Guardian Weekly| titleurl=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/29/killer-robots-ban-un-warning|title=&lsquo;Killer robots&rsquo; should be banned in advance, UN told| passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive '''purposes''' was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
# [[function|Function]], [[role]].
#: {{usex|en|The exceptionally small gate-leg table served the '''purpose''' of a tea table admirably.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Elements of Physiology: Including Physiological Anatomy, for the Use of the Medical Student| author=William Benjamin Carpenter| year=1846| page=281| text=The '''purpose''' of the gall-bladder is obviously to permit the accumulation of bile, when it is not wanted in the intestine; and we find it most constantly present in those tribes of animals, which live upon animal food}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Virus Infections: Modern Concepts and Status| volume=49| page=2| author=Lloyd C. Olson| year=1982| passage=As with all life forms, the sole '''purpose''' of a virus is to ensure reproduction in kind.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The Balance of Nature: Ecology's Enduring Myth| page=18| author=John Kricher| year=2009| text=Is it the '''purpose''' of mosquitoes to ultimately provide calories to large birds of prey?}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=The Secret Language of Leadership| page=254| author=Stephen Denning| year=2011| passage=The '''purpose''' of the dance is to attract attention to the returning worker bee so she can share the odor of the nectar with other workers who will then follow the odor trail to the source.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Design of DNA, Genetic Codes, and Life Function| page=4| author=Charles Schaper| year=2020| passage=Furthermore, since the '''purpose''' of DNA is to translate to proteins, a valid solution on its origin needs to describe the mechanism by which the complementary base pairs map to amino acids.}}
# (Sense of having a) meaning for existing or doing something.
#: {{syn|en|meaning}}<!--{{cot|en|mission}}?-->
#* {{quote-book|en|date=2011-10-01|author=Sarah Jobe|title=Creating with God: The Holy Confusing Blessedness of Being Pregnant|publisher=Paraclete Press|isbn=9781557259905
|text=Before being hospitalized, Thea filled her days with work that gave her life '''purpose'''. Whether it was teaching, writing, or investing in relationships, Thea was busily and actively engaged in activity that she could feel good about.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=2015|author=Donna Kauffman|title=Snowflake Bay|publisher=Zebra Books|isbn=9781420137477|page=338
|text=This place gave him '''purpose''', gave him joy. It was both his life and his lifeline and she was both thrilled and relieved that he'd recovered enough to be able to maintain the place.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|date=2016-01-08|author=Marian de Souza|title=Spirituality in Education in a Global, Pluralised World|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781317619123
|text=A sense of belonging helps to ground the individual by providing a particular way of being in the world which, in turn, helps individuals to make meaning of their life experiences and gives them a sense of '''purpose''', including a sense of responsibility to the group to which one belongs.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|date=2021-08-13|author=O. Curtis Jackson|title=TEN TIMES OVER|publisher=Writers Republic LLC|isbn=9781637286487
|text=He wanted her to know that she gave him '''purpose''', gave him the will to live after he lost Kaylah. He wanted her to know that, no, the diamond wasn't precious enough to symbolize how much he cherished her breath,{{nb...}}}}
# [[resolution|Resolution]]; [[determination]].<!-- M-W 1b, Lexico 1.1, AHD 2, Collins 3 -->
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1620|section=Nouell 8, The Eighth Day|title= {{w|The Decameron|The Decameron, Containing an Hundred Pleaſant Nouels: Wittily Diſcourſed, Betweene Seuen Honourable Ladies, and Three Noble Gentlemen}} |author=w:Giovanni Bocaccio|tlr=w:John Florio |publisher=Isaac Iaggard| url=https://books.google.co.nz/books?id=FEz6_FECCI0C |passage={{...}}purſued his vnneighbourly '''purpoſe''' in ſuch ſort: that hee being the ſtronger perſwader, and ſhe (belike) too credulous in beleeuing or elſe ouer-feeble in reſiſting, from priuate imparlance, they fell to action; and continued their cloſe fight a long while together, vnſeene and vvithout ſuſpition, no doubt to their equall ioy and contentment.}}
#* {{RQ:Landon Francesca Carrara|volume=I|chapter=XVII|page=190|text=Perhaps you have heard that there was once some '''purpose''' of marriage between the Duc de Joyeuse and myself; it is of that which I have to tell.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=Phil McNulty|title=|titleurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/23830980|journal=BBC Sport|date=1 September 2013
|passage=United began with more '''purpose''' in the early phase of the second half and Liverpool were grateful for Glen Johnson's crucial block from Young's goalbound shot.}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|year=2013|month=July-August|author=[http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/sarah-glaz Sarah Glaz]|title=[http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/2013/4/ode-to-prime-numbers Ode to Prime Numbers]|volume=101| issue=4| magazine=w:American Scientist| passage=Some poems, echoing the '''purpose''' of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete}} The [[subject]] of [[discourse]]; the point at [[issue]].
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing Q|act=II|scene=iii|page=27|passage={{...}}he was woont to ſpeake plaine, and to the '''purpoſe''' (like an honeſt man and a ſouldier) {{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Spectator|volume=II|issue=122|date=20 July 1711|page=151|text=The speech he made was so little to the '''purpose''', that I shall not trouble my Readers with an account of it; and I believe was not so much designed by the Knight himself to inform the Court, as to give him a figure in my eye{{nb...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1770|author=Christof Hermann von Manstein|title=Memoirs of Russia, Historical, Political and Military, from the Year MDCCXXVII to MDCCXLIV|page=267
|text=The duke was restless and thoughtful the whole evening, often changed the discourse; like an absent man; and abruptly, quite from the '''purpose'''; asked the marshal, "If in his military expeditions, he had ever undertaken any affair of consequence in the night."}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1817|author=Legh Richmond|title=A Selection from the Writings of the Reformers and Early Protestant Divines of the Church of England|page=296
|text=But now, forasmuch as you have stopt up a few shards in these your last tedious commentaries, though very hardly and quite from the '''purpose''', {{nb...}}}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|end, goal}} {{l|en|aim}}, {{l|en|goal}}, {{l|en|object}}, {{l|en|target}}; See also {{l|en|Thesaurus:goal}}
* {{sense|intention}} {{l|en|aim}}, {{l|en|plan}}, {{l|en|intention}}; See also {{l|en|Thesaurus:intention}}
* {{sense|determination}} {{l|en|determination}}, {{l|en|intention}}, {{l|en|resolution}}
* {{sense|subject of discourse}} {{l|en|matter}}, {{l|en|subject}}, {{l|en|topic}}
* {{sense|reason for doing something}} {{l|en|reason}}

=====Hyponyms=====
* {{l|en|common purpose}}
* {{l|en|metapurpose}}

=====Derived terms=====
{{der4|en|all-purpose
|cross-purpose
|for all intents and purposes
|game with a purpose|purpose-made
|general-purpose
|infinitive of purpose
|multi-purpose
|on purpose
|purpose-built
|purposeful
|purposeless
|purpose-like
|purposely
|purposive
|special-purpose
|purpose loan
|purpose statement
|purity test
|all-purpose flour|by-purpose|cross purpose|dative of purpose|defeat the purpose|dual-purpose|fit for purpose|repurpose|to no purpose|to the purpose}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|end for which something is done, is made or exists}}
* Arabic: {{t+|ar|هَدَف|m}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|məqsəd}}
* Belarusian: {{t+|be|мэ́та|f}}, {{t|be|цэль|f}}
* Bengali: {{t+|bn|মকসদ}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|цел|f}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|propòsit|m}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|目的|tr=mùdì}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|účel|m}}, {{t+|cs|cíl|m}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|mål}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|reden|f}}, {{t+|nl|doel|n}}, {{t+|nl|bedoeling|f}}, {{t+|nl|nut|n}}, {{t+|nl|strekking}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|eesmärk}}, {{t|et|otstarve}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|tarkoitus}}
* French: {{t+|fr|but|m}}, {{t+|fr|objectif|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Zweck|m}}, {{t+|de|Ziel|n}}
* Gothic: {{t|got|𐌻𐌴𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|σκοπός|m}}, {{t+|el|στόχος|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|מַטָּרָה|f|tr=matará}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|अभिप्राय}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|cél}}, {{t+|hu|szándék}}
* Irish: {{t+|ga|cuspóir|m}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|proposito|m}}, {{t+|it|finalità|f}}, {{t+|it|scopo|m}}, {{t+|it|obiettivo|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|目的|tr=もくてき, mokuteki}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|목적(目的)}}
* Latin: {{t|la|propositum|n}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|цел|f}}
* Malagasy: {{t+|mg|tanjona}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|hoaketanga}}
* Ngazidja Comorian: {{t|zdj|makswada|c6}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t+|nb|mål|n}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|cel}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|propósito|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|scop|n}}, {{t+|ro|rost|n}}, {{t+|ro|țel|n}}, {{t+|ro|țintă|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|цель|f}}, {{t+|ru|предназначе́ние|n}}
* Sanskrit: {{t+|sa|अर्थ|m}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|rùn|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|свр̀ха|f}}, {{t|sh|ци̑љ|m}}
*: Roman: {{t+|sh|svr̀ha|f}}, {{t+|sh|cȋlj|m}}
* Slovak: {{t+|sk|účel|m}}, {{t|sk|cieľ|m}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|namen|m}}, {{t+|sl|cilj|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|propósito|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|avsikt|c}}, {{t+|sv|mening}}, {{t+|sv|kall}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|วัตถุประสงค์}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|ціль}}, {{t+|uk|мета́|f}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|צוועק|m}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|pêrpus}}, {{t|zza|meqsed}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|intention}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|نِيَّة|f}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t+|az|niyyət}}
* Bashkir: {{t|ba|ниәт}}
* Belarusian: {{t|be|наме́р|m}}, {{t|be|заме́р|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|намере́ние|n}}
* Catalan: {{t+|ca|propòsit|m}}, {{t+|ca|intenció|f}}
* Chechen: {{t|ce|ойла}}
* Chinese:
*: Mandarin: {{t+|cmn|意向|tr=yìxiàng}}, {{t+|cmn|意圖|tr=yìtú}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|úmysl|m}}, {{t+|cs|záměr|m}}
* Danish: {{t|da|mening}}, {{t|da|intention}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|intentie}}, {{t+|nl|bedoeling}}, {{t+|nl|opzet}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|intenco}}
* French: {{t+|fr|intention|f}}
* German: {{t+|de|Intention|f}}, {{t+|de|Absicht|f}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|σκοπός|m}}, {{t+|el|πρόθεση|f}}
*: Ancient: {{t|grc|δῐᾰ́νοιᾰ|f}}, {{t|grc|πρόθεσις|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|כוונה|f|tr=kavaná|alt=כוונה \ כַּוָּנָה}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|इच्छा}}, {{t+|hi|चाह}}, {{t+|hi|कामना}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szándék}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|intenzione}}, {{t+|it|intento|m}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|意図|tr=いと, ito}}, {{t+|ja|意向|tr=いこう, ikō}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|의도(意圖)}}, {{t+|ko|목적(目的)}}
* Latin: {{t|la|propositum|n}}
* Macedonian: {{t|mk|намера|f}}
* Malagasy: {{t+|mg|fikasana}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|koronga}}
* Ottoman Turkish: {{t|ota|مقصد|tr=maksad}}, {{t|ota|هدف|tr=hedef}}, {{t|ota|غایه|tr=gaye}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|intencja|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|propósito|m}}, {{t+|pt|intenção|f}}, {{t+|pt|objetivo|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|rost|n}}, {{t+|ro|obiectiv|n}}, {{t+|ro|intenție|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|наме́рение|n}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|rùn|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|на̑мера|f}}, {{t|sh|на̑мјера|f}}
*: Roman: {{t|sh|nȃmera|f}}, {{t+|sh|nȃmjera|f}}
* Slovak: {{t|sk|zámer|m}}, {{t+|sk|účel|m}}
* Slovene: {{t+|sl|namen|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|propósito|m}}, {{t+|es|intención|f}}, {{t+|es|objetivo|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|avsikt|c}}, {{t+|sv|mening}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|намір}}
* Yiddish: {{t|yi|צוועק|m}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|niyet}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|determination}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|əzm}}, {{t|az|qətiyyət}}, {{t|az|səbat}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|реши́телност|f}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|vastberadenheid|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|נְחִישׁוּת|f|tr=nekhishút}}
* Hindi: {{t+|hi|संकल्पित}}, {{t+|hi|लक्षित}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|eltökéltség}}, {{t+|hu|céltudatosság}}, {{t+|hu|elszántság}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|determinazione|f}}, {{t+|it|decisione|f}}, {{t+|it|risoluzione|f}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|결심(決心)}}, {{t+|ko|결의(決意)}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zamiar}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|determinare|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|реши́мость|f}}, {{t+|ru|реши́тельность|f}}, {{t+|ru|упо́рство|n}}
* Scottish Gaelic: {{t|gd|rùn|m}}
* Serbo-Croatian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t|sh|на̑мера|f}}, {{t|sh|на̑мјера|f}}
*: Roman: {{t|sh|nȃmera|f}}, {{t+|sh|nȃmjera|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|decisión|f}}, {{t+|es|determinación|f}}, {{t+|es|resolución|f}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|mening}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|ezm}}, {{t|zza|qetiyen}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|subject of discourse}}
* French: {{t+|fr|sujet|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Thema|n}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|נוֹשֵׂא|m|tr=nosé}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|argomento|m}}, {{t+|it|soggetto|m}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|논점(論點)}}, {{t+|ko|론점(論點)}} {{q|North Korea}}, {{t|ko|논지(論旨)}}, {{t|ko|론지(論旨)}} {{q|North Korea}}, {{t|ko|논쟁점(論爭點)}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|temat|m}}, {{t+|pl|zagadnienie|n}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|subiect|n}}, {{t+|ro|temă|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|те́ма|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|tema|m}}, {{t+|es|objeto|m}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|tema}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-top|reason for doing something}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|سَبَب|m}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|моти́в|m}}
* Danish: {{t+|da|grund}}
* Dutch: {{t+|nl|reden}}, {{t+|nl|nut}}, {{t+|nl|zin}}
* Esperanto: {{t+|eo|celo}}
* German: {{t+|de|Grund|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|λόγος|m}}, {{t+|el|αιτία|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|סיבה|f|tr=sibá|alt=סיבה \ סִבָּה}}, {{t|he|מוֹטִיבַצְיָה|f|tr=motivátsya}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|értelem}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|proposito|m}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|의도(意圖)}}, {{t+|ko|목적(目的)}}
* Latin: {{t|la|propositum|n}}
* Malagasy: {{t+|mg|antony}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|aronga}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|powód}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|propósito|m}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|cauză}}, {{t+|ro|motiv|n}}, {{t+|ro|rost|n}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|цель|f}}, {{t+|ru|моти́в|m}}, {{t+|ru|причи́на|f}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|propósito|m}}, {{t+|es|objeto|m}}, {{t+|es|razón|f}}
* Ukrainian: {{t+|uk|на́мір|m}}
* Zazaki: {{t|zza|sebeb}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{checktrans-top}}
* Irish: {{t+check|ga|aidhm|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}

===Etymology 2===
From {{inh|en|enm|purposen|}}, from {{der|en|fro|purposer||to propose}}.

====Verb====
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To have or set as one's purpose or aim; [[resolve]] to [[accomplish]]; [[intend]]; [[plan]].
#* '''1485''' – [[w:Thomas Malory|Thomas Malory]]. ''[[w:Le Morte Darthur|Le Morte Darthur]]'', Book X, Chapter xxxvi, [https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/MaloryWks2/1:12.32?rgn=div2;view=fulltext leaf 235v]
#*: ''Soo was Alysander '''purposed''' to ryde to london by the coūceille of sire Tristram to syre Launcelot /''
#*: "So was Alisander '''purposed''' to ride to London, by the counsel of Sir Tristram, to Sir Launcelot."
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1761|author=Henry Brooke|title=The Tryal of the Roman Catholics of Ireland|page=139
|text=Our gracious Ancestors, however, '''purposed''' Nothing, against these their ancient and implacable Enemies, save what was necessary and indispensable, with respect to their own Preservation.}}
#* {{RQ:Macaulay History of England|volume=I|chapter=1|page=1|passage={{smc|I '''purpose'''}} to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time which is within the memory of men still living.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1853|author=John Bradford; Aubrey Townsend|title=The Writings of John Bradford|publisher=Banner of Truth|page=52
|text={{...}} and because you look not to hear of your well-doing of man, I am '''purposed''' to pass it over with silence, and to give myself presently to that which is more profitable unto you; {{nb...}}}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1883|title=Fragment of a Greek Tragedy|author=w:A. E. Housman|text=ERIPHYLE: He splits my skull, not in a friendly way,<br>Once more: he '''purposes''' to kill me dead.<br>CHORUS: I would not be reputed rash, but yet<br>I doubt if all be gay within the house.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|date=2011-09-07|author=Joni Eareckson Tada|title=Glorious Intruder: God's Presence in Life's Chaos|publisher=Multnomah|isbn=9780307805539|page=123
|text=Whatever you would call "suffering" in your own life, God has allowed it. Even '''purposed''' it. Don't you dare think you can't handle it! First Corinthians 10:13 promises that you can not only handle it, but glorify God in it.}}
# {{lb|en|intransitive}} To have (an) intention, purpose, or design; to intend; to mean.
#* {{RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies|title=The Prophetess|act=IV|scene=ii|page=39|column=2|text=Upon my ſoul, / You may beleeve him: nor did he ere '''purpoſe''' / To me but nobly;{{nb...}}}}
# {{lb|en|obsolete|intransitive}} To [[discourse]].
#* {{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|II|XII|366|passage=Whom ouertaking, ſhe in merry ſort <br>Them gan to bord, and '''purpoſe''' diuerſly,{{...}}}}
#* {{RQ:Hooker Laws|chapter=Preface|page=34|passage=Wherein, as yee heape vp the names of a number of men not vnworthy to bee had in honour; ſo there are a number whom when yee mention, although it ſerue yee to '''purpoſe''' with the ignorant and vulgar ſort, who meaſure by tale and not by waight, yet ſurely they who know what qualitie and value the men are of, will thinke yee drawe very neare the dregs.}}

=====Synonyms=====
* {{sense|have set as one's purpose}} [[aim]], [[intend]], [[mean]], [[plan]], [[set out]]
* {{sense|designed for some purpose}} [[intend]]ed

=====Derived terms=====
* {{l|en|purposed}}
* {{l|en|purposer}}
* {{l|en|purposive}}
* {{l|en|on purpose}}

=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|have set as one's purpose; intend}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|възнамерявам}}
* Dutch: {{t|nl|van plan zijn}}
* Faroese: {{t|fo|ætla}}
* German: {{t+|de|beabsichtigen}}, {{t+|de|planen}}, {{t+|de|vorschlagen}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|σκοπεύω|sc=Grek}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|מתכוון|tr=mitkavén}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|szándékol}}, {{t+|hu|tervez}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|ætla}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|의도하다}}, {{t+|ko|뜻하다}}, {{t+|ko|마음먹다}}
* Portuguese: {{t|pt|propor-se}}
* Romanian: {{t+|ro|intenționa}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|намерева́ться}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|proponerse}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|föreslå}}
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{{trans-top|passive: design for some purpose}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|предназначавам}}
* Russian: {{t|ru|служи́ть це́лью}}
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