Usually means: Small, mythical being with magic.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. dwarf: Merriam-Webster
  2. dwarf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dwarf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dwarf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dwarf: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dwarf, dwarf: Wordnik
  7. dwarf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dwarf: Wiktionary
  9. dwarf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dwarf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dwarf: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dwarf: Dictionary.com
  13. dwarf: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dwarf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DWARF, Dwarf (Dungeons & Dragons), Dwarf (Germanic mythology), Dwarf (Middle-Earth), Dwarf (Middle-earth), Dwarf (Tolkien), Dwarf (Warhammer), Dwarf (disambiguation), Dwarf (mythology), Dwarf (star), Dwarf, The Dwarf (Cho Se-hui novel), The Dwarf (Lagerkvist novel): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dwarf: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dwarf: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dwarf: Rhymezone
  19. Dwarf: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dwarf: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Dwarf: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. dwarf: FreeDictionary.org
  23. dwarf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. dwarf: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. dwarf: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. dwarf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Dwarf: Investopedia
  3. dwarf: Legal dictionary
  4. dwarf: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dwarf (astronomy), Dwarf (star), dwarf: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. dwarf: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Dwarf: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. dwarf: Medical dictionary
  6. Dwarf: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. DWARF: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dwarf: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Dwarf: Extragalactic Astronomy

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

(Note: See dwarfed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (mythology) Any member of a race of beings from (especially Scandinavian and other Germanic) folklore, usually depicted as having some sort of supernatural powers and being skilled in crafting and metalworking, often as short with long beards, and sometimes as clashing with elves.
noun:  (now sometimes offensive) A person of short stature, often one whose limbs are disproportionately small in relation to the body as compared with typical adults, usually as the result of a genetic condition.
noun:  An animal, plant or other thing much smaller than the usual of its sort.
noun:  (astronomy) A dwarf star.
adjective:  (especially in botany) Miniature.
verb:  (transitive) To render (much) smaller, turn into a dwarf (version).
verb:  (transitive) To make appear (much) smaller, puny, tiny; to be much larger than.
verb:  (transitive) To make appear insignificant.
verb:  (intransitive) To become (much) smaller.
verb:  To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
noun:  (file format) A standardized debugging file format.

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