Different verbs offer alternative meanings in each of these sentences.

The book gives alternative meanings to village names in the UK.

In English essay first meant "a trial" or "an attempt", and this is still an alternative meaning.

An alternative meaning which has been suggested is 'Field of the Forecourt'.

The word also takes on specific alternative meanings in various differing fields of academia, see below.

Many people, especially religious authorities, regard this alternative meaning as inaccurate, but it remains in common usage.

In this case the second applicative is used to give an alternative meaning.

Sometimes, an apparently unambiguous question may turn out to have alternative scientific meanings.

An alternative meaning which has been suggested is 'The border meadow'.

An alternative meaning is the ghost of somebody who died in the bush and has no grave.