Usually means: Unmarried woman beyond typical age.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word spinster:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. spinster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spinster: Merriam-Webster
  3. spinster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spinster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spinster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spinster: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spinster, spinster: Wordnik
  8. spinster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. spinster: Wiktionary
  10. spinster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spinster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spinster: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spinster: Dictionary.com
  14. spinster: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spinster: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spinster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spinster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spinster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spinster: Rhymezone
  20. spinster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spinster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Spinster: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. spinster: FreeDictionary.org
  24. spinster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Spinster: The Word Detective
  26. spinster: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. Spinster: World Wide Words

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Spinster: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spinster: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spinster: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

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

(Note: See spinsterhood as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (sometimes derogatory) A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
noun:  One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spinmeister.
noun:  (obsolete) Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
noun:  (obsolete) A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
noun:  (rare, dialectal) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.

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