Usually means: Understanding or fear of something.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word apprehension:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. apprehension: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. apprehension: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. apprehension: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. apprehension: Collins English Dictionary
  5. apprehension: Vocabulary.com
  6. Apprehension, apprehension: Wordnik
  7. apprehension: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. apprehension: Wiktionary
  9. apprehension: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. apprehension: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. apprehension: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. apprehension: Dictionary.com
  13. apprehension: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Apprehension (fear), Apprehension (film), Apprehension (understanding), Apprehension: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Apprehension: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. apprehension: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. apprehension: Rhymezone
  18. Apprehension: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. apprehension: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. apprehension: Free Dictionary
  21. apprehension: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. apprehension: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. apprehension: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. apprehension: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. apprehension: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Apprehension: Merck Manuals
  3. apprehension: Medical dictionary
  4. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)

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  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

(Note: See apprehensions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
noun:  (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
noun:  Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
noun:  Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
noun:  The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
noun:  Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.

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