STY meaning: Infection at eyelash base, painful

We found 36 dictionaries that define the word sty:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

sty: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sty: Merriam-Webster
sty, sty: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
sty, sty: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
sty: Collins English Dictionary
sty: Vocabulary.com
Sty, sty: Wordnik
sty: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
sty: Wiktionary
sty: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
sty: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
sty: Infoplease Dictionary
sty: Dictionary.com
sty (1), sty (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
Sty (disambiguation), Sty: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Sty: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
sty: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
sty: Rhymezone
Sty: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
sty: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
sty: FreeDictionary.org
sty: Mnemonic Dictionary
sty: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
sty: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

sty: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
sty: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Sty: Acronym Finder
STY: Three Letter Words with definitions
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

sty: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A pen or enclosure for swine.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To place in, or as if in, a sty.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To ascend, rise up, climb.
▸ noun:  (British, dialectal) A ladder.
▸ noun:  (pathology) An inflammation of the eyelid.

Similar:

pigsty, pigpen, hordeolum, stye, eye infection, swinesty, crew, fank, stub, pencase, more...

Opposite:

clean

Types:

pimple, blackhead, whitehead, cyst, zit, more...

Phrases:

pig sty, sound from a sty, sounds in a sty, sounds from a sty, sty banquet, more...

Adjectives:

pig, hog, nasty, foul, sensual, filthy, bed, epicurean, warm, swine, bloody

Colors:

silver, gray, black, white, beige, more...