Bible Dictionaries
Interpretation

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning; as, commentators give various interpretations of the same passage of Scripture.

(2):

(n.) The power or explaining.

(3):

(n.) An artist's way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature.

(4):

(n.) The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases.

(5):

(n.) The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction; as, the interpretation of a foreign language, of a dream, or of an enigma.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Interpretation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​i/interpretation.html. 1828.