Usually means: Unexpected discovery through happy accident.
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  1. serendipity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. serendipity: Merriam-Webster
  3. serendipity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. serendipity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. serendipity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. serendipity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Serendipity, serendipity: Wordnik
  8. serendipity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. serendipity: Wiktionary
  10. serendipity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. serendipity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. serendipity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. serendipity: Dictionary.com
  14. serendipity: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. serendipity: Rhymezone
  17. serendipity: FreeDictionary.org
  18. serendipity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Serendipity: The Word Detective
  20. serendipity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. Serendipity: World Wide Words
  22. serendipity: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. serendipity: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Serendipity: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  3. serendipity: Medical dictionary
  4. Serendipity: Drug Medical Dictionary

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A combination of events which have come together by chance to make a surprisingly good or wonderful outcome.
noun:  An unsought, unintended, and/or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery and/or learning experience that happens by accident.
noun:  The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

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