Usually means: Footwear covering sole and upper.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word shoe:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shoe: Merriam-Webster
  3. shoe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shoe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shoe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shoe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shoe, shoe: Wordnik
  8. shoe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shoe, shoe: Wiktionary
  10. shoe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shoe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shoe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Shoe, shoe: Dictionary.com
  14. shoe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shoe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Shoe (cards), Shoe (comic strip), Shoe (disambiguation), Shoe, The Shoe (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shoe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shoe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shoe: Rhymezone
  20. shoe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shoe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Shoe: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. shoe: FreeDictionary.org
  24. shoe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. shoe: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. shoe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shoe: Dictionary of Symbolism
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHOE: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. shoe: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SHOE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. shoe: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shoe: Easton Bible
  2. Shoe: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shoe: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shoe (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. shoe, shoe, shoe: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. The Shoe: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. S.H.O.E, the shoe: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  2. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See shod as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (footwear) A protective covering for the foot, with a bottom part composed of thick leather or plastic sole and often a thicker heel, and a softer upper part made of leather or synthetic material. Shoes generally do not extend above the ankle, as opposed to boots, which do.
noun:  A piece of metal designed to be attached to a horse's foot as a means of protection; a horseshoe.
noun:  (card games) A device for holding multiple decks of playing cards, allowing more games to be played by reducing the time between shuffles.
noun:  Something resembling a shoe in form, position, or function, such as a brake shoe.
noun:  A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow.
noun:  A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill.
noun:  The part of a railroad car brake which presses upon the wheel to retard its motion.
noun:  (architecture) A trough-shaped or spout-shaped member, put at the bottom of the water leader coming from the eaves gutter, so as to throw the water off from the building.
noun:  A trough or spout for conveying grain from the hopper to the eye of the millstone.
noun:  An inclined trough in an ore-crushing mill.
noun:  An iron socket or plate to take the thrust of a strut or rafter.
noun:  An iron socket to protect the point of a wooden pile.
noun:  (engineering) A plate, or notched piece, interposed between a moving part and the stationary part on which it bears, to take the wear and afford means of adjustment; called also slipper and gib.
noun:  Part of a current collector on electric trains which provides contact either with a live rail or an overhead wire (fitted to a pantograph in the latter case).
noun:  (historical) An ingot of gold or silver shaped somewhat like a traditional Chinese shoe, formerly used in trade in the Far East.
noun:  The outer cover or tread of a pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
noun:  (by extension, slang) A pneumatic tire, especially for an automobile.
noun:  (slang) A fake passport.
verb:  (intransitive) To put shoes on one's own feet.
verb:  (transitive) To put shoes on someone or something else's feet, especially to put horseshoes on a horse.
verb:  (intransitive, chiefly as past participle) To cover an object with a protective layer of material.
noun:  A surname.

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