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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word analogy:

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

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. analogy: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. analogy: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  3. Philosophy of Mind (No longer online)
  4. Analogy: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  5. Analogy: Lexicon of Linguistics
  6. ANALOGY: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Analogy: Management Dictionary
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. analogy: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Analogy: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. analogy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. analogy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

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

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Drug Discovery and Development (No longer online)
  3. Analogy: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. analogy: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  5. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  6. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A relationship of resemblance or equivalence between two situations, people, or objects, especially when used as a basis for explanation or extrapolation.
noun:  (geometry) The proportion or the equality of ratios.
noun:  (grammar) The correspondence of a word or phrase with the genius of a language, as learned from the manner in which its words and phrases are ordinarily formed; similarity of derivative or inflectional processes.

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