Usually means: Large rock, often rounded form.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Boulder, boulder: Merriam-Webster
  2. Boulder, boulder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Boulder, boulder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. boulder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Boulder, boulder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Boulder, boulder: Wordnik
  7. boulder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Boulder, boulder: Wiktionary
  9. boulder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. boulder (bowlder): The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. boulder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Boulder, boulder: Dictionary.com
  13. boulder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. boulder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Boulder (album), Boulder (band), Boulder (disambiguation), Boulder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Boulder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. Boulder: Rhymezone
  18. Boulder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. boulder: FreeDictionary.org
  20. boulder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Boulder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. boulder: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. boulder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Boulder: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Boulder (geology), boulder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Boulder: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. boulder: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Boulder: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See bouldered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A large mass of stone detached from the surrounding land.
noun:  (geology) A particle greater than 256 mm in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
noun:  A large marble, in children's games.
noun:  (climbing) A session of bouldering; involvement in bouldering.
verb:  (climbing, ambitransitive) To engage in bouldering.
noun:  A town in Western Australia, merged with Kalgoorlie in 1989 as the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.
noun:  A home rule municipality, the county seat of Boulder County, Colorado, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Clinton County, Illinois, United States.
noun:  A town, the county seat of Jefferson County, Montana, United States.
noun:  A small town in Garfield County, Utah, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Sublette County, Wyoming, United States.

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