Usually means: Keenly enthusiastic and impatiently excited.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word eager:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. eager: Merriam-Webster
  2. eager: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eager, eager: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eager: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eager: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eager, eager: Wordnik
  7. eager: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Eager, eager: Wiktionary
  9. eager: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eager: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eager: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Eager, eager: Dictionary.com
  13. eager: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. eager: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Eager (novel), Eager (surname), Eager: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Eager: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. eager: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. eager: Rhymezone
  19. eager: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. eager: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. eager: FreeDictionary.org
  22. eager: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. eager: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. eager: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. eager: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Eager (musical group), eager: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Eager (musical group), eager: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. EAGER: Acronym Finder
  2. eager: Idioms

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

(Note: See eagerly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
adjective:  (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.
adjective:  (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.
adjective:  (obsolete, literal) Sharp; sour; acid.
adjective:  (obsolete, figurative) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.
verb:  (intransitive) To be or become eager.
verb:  (intransitive) To express eagerness.
verb:  (transitive) To make or encourage to be eager
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore). [a tidal bore]

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