Usually means: Definite article specifying particular entity.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word the:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. the: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. the, the-: Merriam-Webster
  3. the: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. the, the, the-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. the, the-: Collins English Dictionary
  6. the: Vocabulary.com
  7. THe, T'he, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, t�h�e, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, tHe, the-the: Wordnik
  8. the: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. the, the-: Wiktionary
  10. the: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. the: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. the: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. T.H.E, T.H.E, the, the-: Dictionary.com
  14. the: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. the: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. T.H.E. (The Hardest Ever), T.H.E (The Hardest Ever), THE (disambiguation), THE (operating system), THE, The (Cyrillic), The (disambiguation), The (word), The, The The, The the: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. The: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. the: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. the: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. the: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. the, the-: MyWord.info
  22. the: FreeDictionary.org
  23. The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, The, the, the, the, the: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. the, the-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. the, The: Wordnik

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. The: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. the-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. the: Legal dictionary
  2. the: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. T.H.E: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. T.H.E, the: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. The: Eastern Tea
  3. T.H.E, THE: Acronym Finder
  4. THE: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. the: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. the: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The [Trojan] [Horse], the [sol philcox]: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adverb:  With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.
▸ adverb:  With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none.
▸ adverb:  (with a superlative adjective) Beyond all others.

Similar:
gazette, preface, jews, same, Americas, sky, Netherlands, internet, president, undersigned, more...

Opposite:
antonym, contrary, reverse

Types:
article, possessive pronoun, indefinite pronoun, relative pronoun, more...

Phrases:
the same, the most, all the, The world, the new, more...

Adjectives:
part, paris, rutgers, how, one, history, introduction, ill, three, two, contents


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Similar:
gazette, preface, jews, same, Americas, sky, Netherlands, internet, president, undersigned, more...

Opposite:
antonym, contrary, reverse

Types:
article, possessive pronoun, indefinite pronoun, relative pronoun, more...

Phrases:
the same, the most, all the, The world, the new, The Following, The End, the state, the case, the last, the way, the whole, the right, The Only, the people, the best, the old, the great, the country, the more, more...

Adjectives:
part, paris, rutgers, how, one, history, introduction, ill, three, two, contents



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