Usually means: Local official overseeing administrative duties.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word reeve:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. reeve: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. reeve: Merriam-Webster
  3. reeve, reeve, reeve, reeve: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. reeve, reeve, reeve: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. reeve: Collins English Dictionary
  6. reeve: Vocabulary.com
  7. Reeve, reeve: Wordnik
  8. Reeve, reeve: Wiktionary
  9. reeve: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. reeve: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. reeve: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Reeve, reeve: Dictionary.com
  13. reeve: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Reeve (Canada), Reeve (England), Reeve (Final Fantasy), Reeve (surname), Reeve: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Reeve: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. reeve: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. reeve: Rhymezone
  18. Reeve: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. reeve: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. reeve: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. reeve: FreeDictionary.org
  22. reeve: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. reeve: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. reeve: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. REEVE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Reeve (Canada), Reeve: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reeve (Canada), reeve: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. REEVE, REEVE, REEVE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. reeve: Genealogy Glossary
  4. reeve: Idioms
  5. reeve: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)

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

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. reeve: Master Mariner
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See reeved as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.
noun:  (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.
noun:  (military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.
verb:  (nautical, dialect) To pass (a rope) through a hole or opening, especially so as to fasten it.
noun:  A female of the species Philomachus pugnax, a highly gregarious, medium-sized wading bird of Eurasia; the male is a ruff.
noun:  A surname originating as an occupation for a bailiff.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Vance Creek, Barron County, Wisconsin, United States.

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