1. To have in mind; plan: We intend to go. They intend going. You intended that she go.2a. To design for a specific purpose. b. To have in mind for a particular use. 3. To signify or mean.
INTRANSITIVE VERB:
To have a design or purpose in mind.
ETYMOLOGY:
Middle English entenden, from Old French entendre, from Latin intendere : in-, toward; see in2 + tendere, to stretch; see ten- in Appendix I.