Usually means: Spherical object; circle; rounded shape.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word orb:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. orb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. orb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orb: Vocabulary.com
  6. Orb, orb: Wordnik
  7. orb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ORB, orb: Wiktionary
  9. orb: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. orb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. orb: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Orb, orb: Dictionary.com
  13. orb: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. O.R.B, O.R.B. (band), ORB (feature descriptor), ORB, Orb (Adventure Time), Orb (Kinzig), Orb (astrology), Orb (astronomy), Orb (comics), Orb (disambiguation), Orb (horse), Orb (optics), Orb (paranormal), Orb (phenomenon), Orb (photographic), Orb (river), Orb (software), Orb, The Orb, The orb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Orb: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. orb: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. orb: Rhymezone
  18. orb: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. orb: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ORB, orb: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. orb: FreeDictionary.org
  22. orb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. orb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. orb: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. orb-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. ORB: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ORB: CCI Computer
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. ORB (Object Request Broker): Linktionary Networking Glossary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. ORB: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. ORB: Acronym Finder
  3. ORB: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. orb: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Orb (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. orb: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. O.R.B, Orb, THE ORB: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See orbed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A spherical body; a sphere, especially one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star
noun:  Celestial sphere; one of the azure transparent spheres conceived by the ancients to be enclosed one within another, and to carry the heavenly bodies in their revolutions
noun:  (architecture) A structural motif or finial in the shape of a sphere
noun:  An orbit of an heavenly body
noun:  (rare) The time period of an orbit
noun:  (poetic) The eye, seen as a luminous and spherical entity
noun:  (poetic) Any revolving circular body, such as a wheel
noun:  (rare) A sphere of action.
noun:  A globus cruciger; a ceremonial sphere used to represent royal or imperial power
noun:  A translucent sphere appearing in flash photography (Orb (optics))
noun:  (military) A body of soldiers drawn up in a circle, as for defence, especially infantry to repel cavalry.
noun:  (astrology) Amount of deviation from the closest perfect aspect.
verb:  (poetic, transitive) To form into an orb or circle.
verb:  (poetic, intransitive) To become round like an orb.
verb:  (poetic, transitive) To encircle; to surround; to enclose.
noun:  (architecture) A blank window or panel.
noun:  (software engineering) Initialism of object request broker. [(software engineering) A piece of middleware in distributed software that enables program calls from one computer to another via a network.]
noun:  (historical, military) Initialism of operations record book. (used by RAF)

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