Usually means: Authoritative statement; formal pronouncement.
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  1. dictum: Merriam-Webster
  2. dictum: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dictum: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dictum: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dictum: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dictum, dictum: Wordnik
  7. dictum: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dictum: Wiktionary
  9. dictum: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dictum: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dictum: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dictum: Dictionary.com
  13. dictum: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Dictum: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Dictum: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. dictum: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. dictum: Rhymezone
  18. Dictum: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. dictum: FreeDictionary.org
  20. dictum: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. dictum: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. dictum: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. dictum: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. dictum: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. dictum: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. dictum: Legal dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; a maxim, an apothegm.
noun:  A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.
noun:  The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it.
noun:  An arbitrament or award.

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