This tag should be used for questions asking about definitions and nuances of meaning of words, phrases or sentences.
If you are asking about the definition of a specific single word, please use the more specific word-meaning instead.
If you are asking about the meaning of a word in a given context, please use the more specific meaning-in-context instead.
For questions relating to the origin of a word, its evolution over time, or the earliest known citation, the etymology tag should be used.
Lastly, if what you have is the meaning and what you're looking for is a word to match it, single-word-request is the way to go, respectively phrase-request for phrases.
