Usually means: Hidden mark identifying authenticity, ownership.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word watermark:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. watermark: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. watermark: Merriam-Webster
  3. watermark: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. watermark: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. watermark: Collins English Dictionary
  6. watermark: Vocabulary.com
  7. Watermark, watermark: Wordnik
  8. watermark: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. watermark: Wiktionary
  10. watermark: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. watermark: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. watermark: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. watermark: Dictionary.com
  14. watermark (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Watermark (Art Garfunkel album), Watermark (Enya album), Watermark (band), Watermark (data file), Watermark (data synchronization), Watermark (disambiguation), Watermark (film), Watermark (song), Watermark: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Watermark: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. watermark: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. watermark: Rhymezone
  19. Watermark: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. watermark: FreeDictionary.org
  21. watermark: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. watermark: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. watermark: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. watermark: Legal dictionary
  3. watermark: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. watermark: CCI Computer
  2. watermark: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. watermark: Medical dictionary

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

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. watermark: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Paper Industry (No longer online)
  5. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See watermarked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A translucent design impressed on the surface of paper and visible when the paper is held to the light.
noun:  (by extension) A logo superimposed on a digital image, a television broadcast, etc.
noun:  (computing) A value stored in a datafile to ensure its integrity, so that if the file's contents are changed then the watermark will no longer match the contents.
noun:  (graphical user interface) A default hint caption displayed in a text box prior to the user inputting any text.
noun:  A mark indicating the level to which water has risen.
verb:  (transitive) To mark paper with a watermark.
verb:  (transitive) To mark a datafile with a digital watermark.

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