Usually means: To border on; touch alongside.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. abut: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. abut: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. abut: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. abut: Collins English Dictionary
  5. abut: Vocabulary.com
  6. Abut, abut: Wordnik
  7. abut: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. abut: Wiktionary
  9. abut: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. abut: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. abut: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. abut: Dictionary.com
  13. abut: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Abut: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Abut: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. abut: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. abut: Rhymezone
  18. Abut: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. abut: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. abut: Free Dictionary
  21. abut: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. abut: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. abut: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. abut: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. abut: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. abut: Legal dictionary
  6. abut: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. abut: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ABUT, ABUT, ABUT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. abut: A Word A Day
  3. abut: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Abut: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To touch by means of a mutual border, edge or end; to border on; to lie adjacent (to); to be contiguous (said of an area of land)
verb:  (transitive) To border upon; be next to; abut on; be adjacent to.
verb:  (intransitive) To lean against on one end; to end on, of a part of a building or wall.

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