Usually means: Military alliance for collective defense.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word NATO:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. nato: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. NATO: Merriam-Webster
  3. NATO: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. NATO: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. NATO: Collins English Dictionary
  6. NATO: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nato, nato: Wordnik
  8. NATO, Nato, nato: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. NATO, Nato, nato: Wiktionary
  10. NATO: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. NATO: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. NATO: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. NATO: Dictionary.com
  14. NATO: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. nato: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. NATO (album), NATO (disambiguation), NATO, N.A.T.o. (singer), Nato, .nato: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Nato: Rhymezone
  18. nato: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. NATO: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  20. nato: FreeDictionary.org
  21. nato: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. NATO: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. NATO: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NATO: Legal dictionary
  2. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. NATO: Netlingo
  2. Nato: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. CIA World Factbook (No longer online)
  2. NATO: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. NATO: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  2. NATO: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. NATO: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See natos as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A tree of the genus Mora
noun:  (uncountable) The wood of such trees
noun:  Acronym of North Atlantic Treaty Organization. [An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty.]
noun:  (US, film) Acronym of National Association of Theatre Owners.
noun:  (UK, generally proscribed in North America) Alternative letter-case form of NATO.

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