Usually means: Organ filtering blood, producing urine.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word kidney:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. kidney: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. kidney: Merriam-Webster
  3. kidney: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. kidney: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. kidney: Collins English Dictionary
  6. kidney: Vocabulary.com
  7. Kidney, kidney: Wordnik
  8. kidney: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Kidney, Kidney, Kidney, Kidney, Kidney, Kidney, Kidney: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Kidney, kidney: Wiktionary
  11. kidney: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. kidney: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. kidney: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. kidney: Dictionary.com
  15. kidney: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. kidney: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Kidney (Chinese medicine), Kidney (disambiguation), Kidney, The kidney: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Kidney: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. kidney: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. kidney: Rhymezone
  21. kidney: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. kidney: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Kidney: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. kidney: FreeDictionary.org
  25. kidney: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. kidney: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The kidney, kidney: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. kidney: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Kidney: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. kidney: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  9. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  10. kidney: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  12. The kidney, kidney: Medical dictionary
  13. Kidney: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. kidney: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. kidney: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See kidneys as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An organ in the body that filters the blood, producing urine.
noun:  This organ (of an animal) cooked as food.
noun:  (figuratively, dated) Constitution, temperament, nature, type, character, disposition. (usually used of people)
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A waiter.
noun:  A surname from Irish.

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