Usually means: Uncooked, unprocessed, natural state material.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word raw:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. raw: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. raw: Merriam-Webster
  3. raw: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. raw: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. raw, the raw: Collins English Dictionary
  6. raw: Vocabulary.com
  7. Raw, raw: Wordnik
  8. raw: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. RAW, raw: Wiktionary
  10. raw: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. raw: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. raw: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Raw, raw: Dictionary.com
  14. raw: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. raw: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. R.A.W. (album), RAW (Hopsin album), RAW (WWE brand), RAW (magazine), RAW (novel), RAW (rolling papers), RAW, Raw (Alyson Williams album), Raw (Hopsin album), Raw (Jimmy Barnes album), Raw (Juvenile album), Raw (Moxy album), Raw (Ra album), Raw (TV series), Raw (The Alarm album), Raw (WWE brand), Raw (comics), Raw (film), Raw (magazine), Raw (movie), Raw (novel), Raw (television series), Raw, .raw: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Raw: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. raw: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. raw: Rhymezone
  20. raw: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. raw: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. RAW: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Raw: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. raw: FreeDictionary.org
  25. raw: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. raw: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. raw: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Tea Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. RAW (disambiguation), raw: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Webopedia (No longer online)
  2. RAW (disambiguation), raw: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. RAW (disambiguation), raw: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. RAW: Acronym Finder
  2. Tea Terms (No longer online)
  3. RAW: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. raw: Idioms

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. raw, raw, raw, raw: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. Raw: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. R.A.W, The Raw, raw [schwanz]: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. Raw: Nikonians Photo Glossary
  3. Dictionary for Avionics (No longer online)
  4. Raw: Coin Collecting
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

(Note: See rawer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (cooking) (of food) Not cooked.
adjective:  Subsisting on, or pertaining to, a diet of raw food.
adjective:  Not treated or processed; in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed. (of materials, products, etc.)
adjective:  Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
adjective:  New or inexperienced.
adjective:  Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
adjective:  (statistics, of data) Uncorrected, without analysis.
adjective:  Unpleasantly cold or damp. (of weather)
adjective:  Unmasked, undisguised, strongly expressed. (of an emotion, personality, etc.)
adjective:  Candid in a representation of unpleasant facts, conditions, etc.
adjective:  Unrefined, crude, or insensitive, especially with reference to sexual matters. (of language)
adjective:  (slang, sex) Without a condom.
adjective:  (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
adverb:  (slang, sex) Without a condom.
noun:  (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
noun:  A galled place; an inveterate sore.
noun:  (by extension, figurative) A point about which a person is particularly sensitive.
noun:  (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
noun:  (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To sexually penetrate without a condom.
noun:  A surname from Old English.
noun:  (India, acronym) Initialism of Research and Analysis Wing.
noun:  (games) Abbreviation of rules as written: the actual rules appearing in the rulebook, as opposed to house rules, or to rules that might have been intended (in the event of a mistake in the rulebook).
noun:  (computing) Initialism of read after write, a kind of data hazard.

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