Usually means: Group with shared political goals.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. -faction, faction: Merriam-Webster
  2. -faction, faction, faction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. faction, faction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. faction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. faction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Faction, faction: Wordnik
  7. faction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -faction, faction: Wiktionary
  9. faction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -faction, faction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. faction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -faction, faction: Dictionary.com
  13. faction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. faction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Faction (Planescape), Faction (literature), Faction (political), Faction, The Faction (band), The Faction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Faction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. faction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. faction: Rhymezone
  19. faction, faction (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. faction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. faction: FreeDictionary.org
  22. faction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. faction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. Faction: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. faction: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -faction: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  2. faction: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. faction: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Political (No longer online)

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

(Note: See factional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
noun:  (uncountable) Strife; discord.
noun:  (literature, film) A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction.
noun:  The facts found in fiction.

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