We found 28 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word against:
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 General (25 matching dictionaries)
- against: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- against: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- against: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- against: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- AGAINST, Against, against: Wordnik [home, info]
- against: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Against: Wiktionary [home, info]
- against: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- against: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- against: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- Against, against: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- against: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- against: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- against: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- against: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
- Against (album), Against (band), Against: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- against: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Against: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- against: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- against: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- against: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- against: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- against: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- against: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
- against: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- Against (album), against: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
- AGAINST: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
- against: Idioms [home, info]
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Quick definitions (against)
(prep.) Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.
(prep.) By of before the time that; in preparation for; so as to be ready for the time when.
(prep.) From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.
(prep.) In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time.
(This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)
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