Usually means: Observable event or fact experienced.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenomenon: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. phenomenon: Merriam-Webster
  3. phenomenon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. phenomenon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. phenomenon: Collins English Dictionary
  6. phenomenon: Vocabulary.com
  7. Phenomenon, phenomenon: Wordnik
  8. phenomenon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. phenomenon: Wiktionary
  10. phenomenon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. phenomenon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. phenomenon: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. phenomenon: Dictionary.com
  14. phenomenon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. phenomenon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Phenomenon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. phenomenon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. phenomenon: Rhymezone
  20. phenomenon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. phenomenon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. phenomenon: FreeDictionary.org
  23. phenomenon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. phenomenon: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Phenomenon: World Wide Words

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenomenon: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. phenomenon: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phenomenon (philosophy), phenomenon: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Phenomenon (philosophy), phenomenon: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. phenomenon: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Phenomenon (philosophy), phenomenon: Medical dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Phenomenon: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
noun:  (by extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science)
noun:  A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2)
noun:  Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
noun:  A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
noun:  A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
noun:  (philosophy, chiefly Kantian idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and conceptual structure imposed upon it by the human mind (especially by the powers of perception and understanding).

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