Usually means: Unclear meaning, open to interpretation.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word ambiguity:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambiguity: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ambiguity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ambiguity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ambiguity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ambiguity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ambiguity, ambiguity: Wordnik
  7. ambiguity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ambiguity: Wiktionary
  9. ambiguity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ambiguity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ambiguity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ambiguity, ambiguity: Dictionary.com
  13. ambiguity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ambiguity (album), Ambiguity (concept), Ambiguity (disambiguation), Ambiguity (horse), Ambiguity (law), Ambiguity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ambiguity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ambiguity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ambiguity: Rhymezone
  18. Ambiguity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ambiguity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ambiguity: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. ambiguity: Free Dictionary
  22. ambiguity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ambiguity: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. ambiguity: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambiguity: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. ambiguity: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. Ambiguity: Lexicon of Linguistics
  5. AMBIGUITY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. ambiguity: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. ambiguity: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. ambiguity: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ambiguity: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. ambiguity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ambiguity: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ambiguity: A Word A Day

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

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.
noun:  (countable) An instance of this state: words or statements that are open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, especially if that meaning cannot be determined from the context.

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