Usually means: Involuntary opening of mouth, breathing.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word yawn:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. yawn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. yawn: Merriam-Webster
  3. yawn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. yawn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. yawn: Collins English Dictionary
  6. yawn: Vocabulary.com
  7. Yawn, yawn: Wordnik
  8. yawn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Yawn, yawn: Wiktionary
  10. yawn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. yawn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. yawn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. yawn: Dictionary.com
  14. yawn (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. yawn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Yawn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Yawn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. yawn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. yawn: Rhymezone
  20. yawn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. yawn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. YAWN: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Yawn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. yawn: FreeDictionary.org
  25. yawn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Yawn: The Word Detective
  27. yawn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. yawn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. YAWN: Investopedia
  2. yawn: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. yawn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. yawn: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Yawn: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Yawn: MedFriendly Glossary
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  6. yawn: Medical dictionary
  7. Yawn: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. YAWN: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. yawn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. yawn: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See yawned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To open the mouth widely and take a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored, and sometimes accompanied by pandiculation.
verb:  To say while yawning.
verb:  To present a wide opening; gape.
verb:  (obsolete) To open the mouth, or to gape, through surprise or bewilderment.
verb:  (obsolete) To be eager; to desire to swallow anything; to express desire by yawning.
noun:  The action of yawning; opening the mouth widely and taking a long, rather deep breath, often because one is tired or bored.
noun:  (colloquial) A particularly boring event.
noun:  A surname.

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