Usually means: Large seabird, long wings, soaring.
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  1. albatross: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. albatross: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. albatross: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. albatross: Collins English Dictionary
  5. albatross: Vocabulary.com
  6. Albatross, albatross: Wordnik
  7. albatross: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. albatross: Wiktionary
  9. albatross: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. albatross: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. albatross: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Albatross, albatross: Dictionary.com
  13. albatross: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  15. Albatross: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. albatross: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. albatross: Rhymezone
  18. Albatross: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. albatross: Free Dictionary
  20. albatross: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Albatross: The Word Detective
  22. albatross: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. albatross: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. Albatross: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. albatross: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. albatross: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ALBATROSS: Acronym Finder
  3. albatross: A Word A Day
  4. albatross: Idioms
  5. albatross: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Albatross: Botanical Name listing of Plants

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

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. albatross: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Albatross: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Albatross: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of various large seabirds of the family Diomedeidae ranging widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacific and having a hooked beak and long narrow wings.
noun:  Any of various African and Asian pierid butterflies of the genus Appias. Some species of this genus are also known as puffins.
noun:  (golf) A double eagle, or three under par on any one hole, except a par 3 hole.
noun:  (figurative) A long-term impediment, burden, or curse.

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