Usually means: Mysterious, known by few, esoteric.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word arcane:

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

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  1. arcane: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ARCANE: Acronym Finder

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

(Note: See arcanes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Understood by only a few.
adjective:  (by extension) Obscure, mysterious.
adjective:  Requiring secret or mysterious knowledge to understand.
adjective:  Extremely old (e.g. interpretation or knowledge), and possibly irrelevant.

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