Usually means: Wise judgment in practical affairs.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. prudence: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. prudence: Merriam-Webster
  3. prudence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. prudence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. prudence: Collins English Dictionary
  6. prudence: Vocabulary.com
  7. Prudence, prudence: Wordnik
  8. prudence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Prudence, prudence: Wiktionary
  10. prudence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. prudence: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. prudence: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. prudence: Dictionary.com
  14. prudence: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. prudence: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Prudence (disambiguation), Prudence (given name), Prudence (painting), Prudence (virtue), Prudence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Prudence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. prudence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. prudence: Rhymezone
  20. Prudence, prudence (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. prudence: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Prudence: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. prudence: FreeDictionary.org
  24. prudence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. prudence: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. prudence: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. prudence: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. PRUDENCE: Accounting Glossary
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. prudence: Legal dictionary
  5. Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prudence: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. PRUDENCE: Acronym Finder

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Prudence: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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

(Note: See prudences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Prudence)

noun:  The quality or state of being prudent
noun:  Economy; frugality.
noun:  A female given name from English, one of the Puritan virtue names.

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