Usually means: Intention or goal one pursues.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word aim:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. AIM, aim: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. AIM, aim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. aim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. aim: Collins English Dictionary
  5. aim: Vocabulary.com
  6. Aim, Aim, aim, aim: Wordnik
  7. aim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. AIM, aim: Wiktionary
  9. aim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. aim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. aim: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. AIM: Dictionary.com
  13. aim: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. aim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. A.I.M, AIM (album), AIM (software), AIM, Aim (demon), Aim (musician), Aim (toothpaste), Aim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Aim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. aim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. aim: Rhymezone
  19. aim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. aim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. AIM: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Aim: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. aim: Free Dictionary
  24. aim: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. aim: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. aim: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. AIM: Accounting Glossary
  2. AIM: bizterms.net
  3. AIM: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  4. AIM: Moneyterms
  5. AIM (disambiguation), aim: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AIM: Netlingo
  2. AIM: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. AIM (disambiguation), AIM: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AIM: Acronym Finder
  2. AIM: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. aim: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AIM: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. the aim: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Aim: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  2. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The pointing of a weapon, as a gun, a dart, or an arrow, or object, in the line of direction with the object intended to be struck; the line of fire; the direction of anything, such as a spear, a blow, a discourse, a remark, towards a particular point or object, with a view to strike or affect it.
noun:  The point intended to be hit, or object intended to be attained or affected.
noun:  Intention or goal
noun:  The ability of someone to aim straight; one's faculty for being able to hit a physical target
noun:  (obsolete) Conjecture; guess.
verb:  (intransitive) To point or direct a missile, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it
verb:  (intransitive) To direct the intention or purpose; to attempt the accomplishment of a purpose; to try to gain; to endeavor;—followed by at, or by an infinitive
verb:  (transitive) To direct or point (e.g. a weapon), at a particular object; to direct, as a missile, an act, or a proceeding, at, to, or against an object
verb:  (transitive) To direct (something verbal) towards a certain person, thing, or group
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To guess or conjecture.
noun:  (UK, finance) AIM, the secondary stock market of the London Stock Exchange; formerly an initialism of Alternative Investment Market.
noun:  Initialism of America Online. AIM; AOL Instant Messenger.
noun:  Initialism of Agape International Missions.
noun:  (ESA, space science) Initialism of Asteroid Impact Mission.
noun:  (Internet, historical, 1997–2017) Initialism of AOL Instant Messenger.
noun:  (NASA, space science) Initialism of Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere, a NASA satellite.

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