Usually means: Genuine, real, without intention to deceive.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word bona fide:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bona fide: Merriam-Webster
  2. bona fide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bona fide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bona fide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bona fide: Vocabulary.com
  6. bona-fide, bona fide: Wordnik
  7. bona fide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bona fide: Wiktionary
  9. bona fide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bona fide: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bona-fide, bona fide: Dictionary.com
  12. bona fide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bona Fide (Wishbone Ash album), Bona Fide, Bona fide (disambiguation), Bona fide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bona fide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bona fide: Rhymezone
  16. Bona fide: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bona-fide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. Bona Fide: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. bona fide: FreeDictionary.org
  20. bona fide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bona fide: Foreign Words and Phrases
  22. bona fide: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. bona-fide: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. bona fide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. bona fide: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. bona fide: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  7. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  9. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  10. bona fide: Finance-Glossary.com
  11. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  12. bona fide: Legal dictionary
  13. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  14. Glossary of Labor & Legal Terminology (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bona fide: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bona fide: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bona fide, bona fide: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Bona Fide: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bona_fides as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (bona fide)

adverb:  In good faith; genuinely, sincerely.
adjective:  In good faith; sincere; without deception or ulterior motive.
adjective:  Genuine; not counterfeit.

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