Usually means: Blend of two words, combined.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word portmanteau word:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. portmanteau word: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. portmanteau word: Merriam-Webster
  3. portmanteau word: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. portmanteau word: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. portmanteau word: Collins English Dictionary
  6. portmanteau word: Vocabulary.com
  7. portmanteau-word: Wordnik
  8. portmanteau-word, portmanteau word: Wiktionary
  9. portmanteau word: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. portmanteau word: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. portmanteau word: Dictionary.com
  12. Portmanteau word: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. portmanteau word: Rhymezone
  14. Portmanteau Word: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  15. portmanteau word: FreeDictionary.org
  16. portmanteau word: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. portmanteau word: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Portmanteau Word: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. PORTMANTEAU WORD: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portmanteau word: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portmanteau word: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. portmanteau word: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (portmanteau word)

noun:  (linguistics) A word which combines the meaning of two words (or, rarely, more than two words), formed by combining the words, usually, but not always, by adjoining the first part of one word and the last part of the other, the adjoining parts often having a common vowel.

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