Usually means: Genuine, true to its origin.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word authentic:

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

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. authentic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. authentic-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. authentic: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. authentic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. authentic: Medical dictionary

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

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Authentic: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Authentic: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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

(Note: See authentically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of the same origin as claimed; genuine.
adjective:  Conforming to reality and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, or belief.
adjective:  (music)
adjective:  Designating a mode having the final as the lowest note.
adjective:  Designating a cadence in which the dominant chord precedes the tonic.
adjective:  (obsolete) Authoritative.

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