Usually means: Contagious viral infection, causes swelling.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. mumps: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mumps: Merriam-Webster
  3. mumps: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mumps: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mumps: Collins English Dictionary
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  7. Mumps, mumps: Wordnik
  8. mumps: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. MUMPS, mumps: Wiktionary
  10. mumps: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mumps: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mumps: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mumps: Dictionary.com
  14. mumps: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mumps: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. MUMPS (programming language), MUMPS (software), MUMPS, Mumps (disambiguation), Mumps (rock band), Mumps, The mumps: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mumps: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mumps: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mumps: Rhymezone
  20. Mumps: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mumps: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. MUMPS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. mumps: FreeDictionary.org
  24. mumps: Mnemonic Dictionary
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Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MUMPS: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. MUMPS: Dictionary of Programming Languages
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  5. MUMPS (programming language), mumps: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. mumps: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Mumps: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  5. Mumps: Merck Manuals
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  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
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  10. Mumps: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  11. National Immunization Program Glossary (No longer online)
  12. mumps: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  13. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  14. MUMPS (programming language), mumps: Medical dictionary
  15. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. Mumps: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. MUMPS: Acronym Finder
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Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mumps: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. mumps: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (pathology) A contagious disease caused by the Mumps virus of the genus Rubulavirus, mostly occurring in childhood, which causes swelling of glands in the face and neck.
noun:  (dated) A gloomy or sullen silence.
noun:  Acronym of Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System; a programming language (and database) developed originally to be specifically for hierarchically arranged records, such as medical records.

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