Usually means: Expression of regret for wrongdoing.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word sorry:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sorry (song), Sorry, sorry: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorry: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorry: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sorry: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See sorrier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (of a person) Regretful or apologetic for one's actions.
adjective:  (of a person) Grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
adjective:  Poor, pitifully sad or regrettable.
adjective:  Pathetic; contemptibly inadequate.
noun:  The act of saying sorry; an apology.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive, rare) To feel sorry (for someone).

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