Usually means: Opponent or foe in conflict.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word adversary:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. adversary: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. adversary, the Adversary: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. adversary: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. adversary: Collins English Dictionary
  5. adversary: Vocabulary.com
  6. Adversary, adversary, the adversary: Wordnik
  7. adversary: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Adversary, adversary: Wiktionary
  9. adversary: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. adversary: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. adversary: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Adversary, adversary, the adversary: Dictionary.com
  13. adversary: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. adversary: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Adversary (comics), Adversary (cryptography), Adversary (online algorithm), Adversary, The Adversary (Fables), The Adversary (Ihsahn album), The Adversary (Thy Art Is Murder album), The Adversary (Westworld), The Adversary (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. adversary: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. adversary: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. adversary, the adversary: Free Dictionary
  19. adversary: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. adversary: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. The Adversary, adversary: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. adversary: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. Adversary: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  24. adversary: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  25. adversary: Rhymezone
  26. Adversary: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. adversary: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. DS Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Adversary (disambiguation), adversary: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. adversary: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Adversary (disambiguation), adversary: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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

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

(Note: See adversaries as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  An opponent or rival.
noun:  (Christianity, sometimes Judaism) The Devil; Satan.

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