Usually means: Elevated body temperature due illness.
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We found 59 dictionaries that define the word fever:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. fever: Merriam-Webster
  2. fever: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fever: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fever: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fever: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fever, fever: Wordnik
  7. fever: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fever: Wiktionary
  9. fever: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fever: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fever: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. fever: Dictionary.com
  13. fever: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fever: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Fever: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fever: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fever: Rhymezone
  19. fever: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fever: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. fever: FreeDictionary.org
  22. fever: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. fever: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. fever: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. fever: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fever: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fever: Encyclopedia

Medicine (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. fever: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Fever: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. Fever: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  9. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  10. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  12. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  13. Fever: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  14. fever: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  15. fever: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  16. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  17. fever: Medical dictionary
  18. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  19. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  20. Fever: Drug Medical Dictionary
  21. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. FEVER, FEVER, FEVER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. FEVER: Acronym Finder
  4. fever: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Fever: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fever: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fever, The Fever: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (medicine) A higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease.
▸ noun:  (usually in combination with one or more preceding words) Any of various diseases.
▸ noun:  A state of excitement or anxiety.
▸ noun:  (neologism) A group of stingrays.
▸ noun:  (in combination, slang, often derogatory) Sexual attraction towards a specific group of people.
▸ verb:  To put into a fever; to affect with fever.
▸ verb:  To become fevered.

Similar:
febricity, pyrexia, feverishness, Feaver, fevery, typhoid, pneumonia, sickness, ague, infection, more...

Opposite:
coolness, chill, health, normalcy, calmness

Types:
low-grade fever, high-grade fever, more...

Phrases:
yellow fever, rheumatic fever, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, high fever, more...

Adjectives:
yellow, scarlet, rheumatic, high, intermittent, typhoid, enteric, acute, malarial, grade, slight

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     crimson,     scarlet, more...


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Similar:
febricity, pyrexia, feverishness, Feaver, fevery, typhoid, pneumonia, sickness, ague, infection, more...

Opposite:
coolness, chill, health, normalcy, calmness

Types:
low-grade fever, high-grade fever, more...

Phrases:
yellow fever, rheumatic fever, typhoid fever, scarlet fever, high fever, hay fever, spotted fever, fever pitch, relapsing fever, hemorrhagic fever, typhus fever, puerperal fever, dengue fever, valley fever, more...

Adjectives:
yellow, scarlet, rheumatic, high, intermittent, typhoid, enteric, acute, malarial, grade, slight

Colors:
    red,     orange,     yellow,     crimson,     scarlet, more...



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