Usually means: Slightly open; not fully closed.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ajar, ajar: Merriam-Webster
  2. ajar, ajar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ajar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ajar: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ajar: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ajar, ajar: Wordnik
  7. ajar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ajar, ajar: Wiktionary
  9. ajar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ajar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ajar: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ajar, ajar: Dictionary.com
  13. ajar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ajar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. AJAR (applications software platform), Ajar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ajar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ajar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ajar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ajar: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ajar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. ajar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. ajar: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. ajar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  24. ajar: Merriam-Webster

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  1. ajar: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AJAR: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ajar: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Slightly turned or opened.
adjective:  Slightly turned or opened.
verb:  (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To turn or open slightly; to become ajar or to cause to become ajar; to be or to hang ajar.
adverb:  (archaic) Out of harmony.
adverb:  Being at variance or in contradiction to something.
verb:  (rare, perhaps nonstandard) To show variance or contradiction with something; to be or cause to be askew.
noun:  Synonym of Adjaran

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