Usually means: Unintended event causing damage, harm.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word accident:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. accident: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. accident: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accident: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accident: Collins English Dictionary
  5. accident: Vocabulary.com
  6. Accident, accident: Wordnik
  7. accident: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Accident, accident: Wiktionary
  9. accident: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. accident: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. accident: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. accident: Dictionary.com
  13. accident: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. accident: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Accident (Bottom), Accident (Bottom episode), Accident (disambiguation), Accident (fallacy), Accident (film), Accident (geology), Accident (novel), Accident (philosophy), Accident, The Accident (film), The Accident (miniseries), The Accident: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Accident: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. accident: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. accident: Rhymezone
  19. accident, accident (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. accident: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. accident: Free Dictionary
  22. accident: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. accident: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. accident: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. accident: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Accident: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. accident: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. accident: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. accident: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accident: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. accident: Medical dictionary
  4. Accident: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. accident: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Accident: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. accident: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
noun:  (law) casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
noun:  (transport) A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
noun:  Any chance event.
noun:  (uncountable) Chance; random chance.
noun:  Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
noun:  (grammar) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
noun:  (euphemistic) An instance of incontinence.
noun:  Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
noun:  (euphemistic) An unintended pregnancy.
noun:  (derogatory or humorous) A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
noun:  (geology) An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
noun:  (geology) A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
noun:  (heraldry) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
adjective:  (transport) Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
noun:  A town in Maryland, United States.

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