Usually means: Investigator skilled in uncovering mysteries.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word sleuth:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sleuth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sleuth: Merriam-Webster
  3. sleuth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sleuth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sleuth: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sleuth: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sleuth, sleuth: Wordnik
  8. sleuth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sleuth: Wiktionary
  10. sleuth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sleuth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sleuth: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sleuth: Dictionary.com
  14. sleuth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sleuth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sleuth (TV channel), Sleuth (play), Sleuth (video game), Sleuth, The Sleuth (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sleuth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sleuth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sleuth: Rhymezone
  20. Sleuth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sleuth: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sleuth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sleuth: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Disney Comics Characters (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sleuth: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SLEUTH: Acronym Finder
  2. sleuth: A Word A Day
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sleuth: Urban Dictionary
  2. Sleuth: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

(Note: See sleuthed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A detective.
noun:  (archaic) A sleuthhound; a bloodhound.
noun:  (obsolete) An animal’s trail or track.
verb:  (intransitive, transitive) To act as a detective; to try to discover who committed a crime, or, more generally, to solve a mystery.
noun:  (obsolete, uncountable) Slowness; laziness, sloth.
noun:  (rare, collective) A group of bears.

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