Usually means: Frightening creature from myths, folklore.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word monster:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. monster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. monster: Merriam-Webster
  3. monster, monster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. monster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. monster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. monster: Vocabulary.com
  7. Monster, monster: Wordnik
  8. monster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. monster: Wiktionary
  10. monster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. monster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. monster: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. monster: Dictionary.com
  14. monster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. monster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Monster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. monster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. monster: Rhymezone
  20. Monster (nt), monster, monster (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. monster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Monster: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Monster: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. monster: FreeDictionary.org
  25. monster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. monster: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Monster: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Monster (disambiguation), monster: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. monster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Monster (disambiguation), monster: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MONSTER: Acronym Finder
  3. monster: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. monster, monster, monster: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Monster: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. the monster: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Monster: Dan's Poker
  2. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. monster: Coin Collecting

(Note: See monstering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A terrifying and dangerous creature, especially one of an imaginary or mythical kind.
noun:  A bizarre or whimsical creature.
noun:  A cruel, heartless, or antisocial person, especially a criminal.
noun:  (archaic) A deformed animal or person (especially, a severely deformed one); in previous centuries often taken as an ill omen at the time of its birth. (Offensive when applied to humans in modern usage.)
noun:  (figuratively, humorous) A badly behaved person, especially a child; a brat.
noun:  (informal) Something unusually large.
noun:  (informal) A prodigy; someone very talented in a specific domain.
noun:  (gaming) A non-player character that player(s) fight against in role-playing games; a mob
adjective:  (informal) Very large; worthy of a monster.
adjective:  (informal) Great; very good; excellent.
verb:  (transitive) To make into a monster; to categorise as a monster; to demonise.
verb:  (intransitive) To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
verb:  (chiefly Australia) To harass.
verb:  (UK, live action roleplaying games) To play (a series of) non-player characters as directed, without having the responsibility of organising the game itself; generally not limited to playing literal monsters or hostile combatants.
verb:  (informal, British, transitive, intransitive) To punish, reprimand or intimidate.
noun:  A surname.

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