Usually means: Contradictory terms appearing in conjunction.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word oxymoron:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. oxymoron: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. oxymoron: Merriam-Webster
  3. oxymoron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. oxymoron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. oxymoron: Collins English Dictionary
  6. oxymoron: Vocabulary.com
  7. Oxymoron, oxymoron: Wordnik
  8. oxymoron: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. oxymoron: Wiktionary
  10. oxymoron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. oxymoron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. oxymoron: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. oxymoron: Dictionary.com
  14. oxymoron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Oxymoron (album), Oxymoron (band), Oxymoron (disambiguation), Oxymoron, The Oxymoron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Oxymoron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. oxymoron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. oxymoron: Rhymezone
  19. Oxymoron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. oxymoron: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. oxymoron: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. oxymoron: FreeDictionary.org
  23. oxymoron: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. oxymoron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. oxymoron: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. oxymoron: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Oxymoron: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  5. OXYMORON: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. oxymoron: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. oxymoron: A Word A Day
  2. oxymoron: Wordcraft Dictionary

(Note: See oxymora as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which two words or phrases with opposing meanings are used together intentionally for effect.
noun:  (loosely, sometimes proscribed) A contradiction in terms.

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