In communication, 'meanings' refer to a person's

In communication, meanings are a person's internal responses to a message.

Meaning lives inside the receiver, in the thoughts and reactions a message triggers, not in the words themselves.

Describing meanings as mere notions about the world is too broad and misses their tie to a specific message.

Describing them as subsuming messages for suppression is not a recognised idea of meaning.

Limiting meanings to external responses only is wrong because meaning is chiefly an inner, mental response.

Since meaning resides in people, the same message can mean different things to different receivers.