Usually means: Error in judgment or action.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word mistake:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. mistake: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mistake: Merriam-Webster
  3. mistake: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mistake: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mistake: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mistake: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mistake, mistake: Wordnik
  8. mistake: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mistake: Wiktionary
  10. mistake: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mistake: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mistake: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. mistake: Dictionary.com
  14. mistake (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. mistake: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Mistake (Mike Oldfield song), Mistake (Moby song), Mistake (Stephanie McIntosh song), Mistake (contract law), Mistake (criminal law), Mistake (disambiguation), Mistake, The Mistake (House), The Mistake (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Mistake: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. mistake: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. mistake: Rhymezone
  20. mistake: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. mistake: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. mistake: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. mistake: FreeDictionary.org
  24. mistake: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. mistake: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. mistake: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mistake: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. mistake: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. mistake: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. mistake: Law.com Dictionary
  4. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  9. Mistake (criminal law), mistake: Legal dictionary
  10. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mistake: Encyclopedia
  2. mistake: CCI Computer

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. mistake: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. mistake: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mistake: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Mistake: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mistaken as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To understand wrongly, taking one thing or person for another.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To misunderstand (someone).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To commit an unintentional error; to do or think something wrong.
verb:  (obsolete, rare) To take or choose wrongly.
noun:  An error.
noun:  (baseball) A pitch which was intended to be pitched in a hard-to-hit location, but instead ends up in an easy-to-hit place.

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