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General (32 matching dictionaries)

1. background: The Word Spy [home, info]
2. background: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
3. background: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
4. background: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
5. background: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
6. Background, background: Wordnik [home, info]
7. background, the background: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
8. background: Wiktionary [home, info]
9. background: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
10. background: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
11. background: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
12. Background, background: Dictionary.com [home, info]
13. background: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
14. background: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
15. background: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
16. Background (Lifetime album), Background (astronomy), Background (computer software), Background (disambiguation), Background: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
17. Background: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
18. background: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
19. background: Rhymezone [home, info]
20. background: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
21. background: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
22. Background: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
23. background: Free Dictionary [home, info]
24. background: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
25. background: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
26. background: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
27. background: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
28. background: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]
29. background: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
30. background: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]

Art (6 matching dictionaries)

31. background: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology [home, info]
32. Background: English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) [home, info]
33. Background: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists [home, info]
34. background: mosaic glossary [home, info]
35. background (textlinguistics): Literary Criticism [home, info]
36. background: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

37. Background: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
38. Background (disambiguation), background: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)

39. background: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
40. background: CCI Computer [home, info]
41. background: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary [home, info]
42. background: Webopedia [home, info]
43. Background (disambiguation), background: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

44. background: online medical dictionary [home, info]
45. background: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

46. background: Postmodern Bible Dictionary [home, info]

Science (1 matching dictionary)

47. Background: FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

48. background: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)

49. Background: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
50. Background: Nikonians Photo Glossary [home, info]
51. Background: Glossary of Film/Video Terms [home, info]
52. BACKGROUND: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
53. Background: PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (background) ▸ noun:  (computer science) the area of the screen in graphical user interfaces against which icons and windows appear ▸ noun:  a person's social heritage: previous experience or training ("He is a lawyer with a sports background") ▸ noun:  information that is essential to understanding a situation or problem ("The embassy filled him in on the background of the incident") ▸ noun:  the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground ("He posed her against a background of rolling hills") ▸ noun:  relatively unimportant or inconspicuous accompanying situation ("When the rain came he could hear the sound of thunder in the background") ▸ noun:  extraneous signals that can be confused with the phenomenon to be observed or measured ("They got a bad connection and could hardly hear one another over the background signals") ▸ noun:  scenery hung at back of stage ▸ noun:  the state of the environment in which a situation exists ▸ verb:  understate the importance or quality of ▸ Also see backgrounds ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to background ▸ Usage examples for background ▸ Idioms related to background (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing background ▸ Words that often appear near background ▸ Rhymes of background ▸ Invented words related to background