Usually means: Covering for warmth or privacy.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word blanket:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. blanket: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. blanket, blanket: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blanket: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blanket: Vocabulary.com
  5. Blanket, blanket: Wordnik
  6. blanket: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. blanket: Wiktionary
  8. blanket: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. blanket: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. blanket: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. blanket: Dictionary.com
  12. blanket: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. blanket: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Blanket (disambiguation), Blanket: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Blanket: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. blanket: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. blanket: Rhymezone
  18. blanket: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. blanket: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Blanket: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. blanket: Free Dictionary
  22. blanket: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. blanket: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. blanket: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. blanket: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. blanket: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. blanket: Legal dictionary
  4. blanket: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. blanket: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. blanket: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. blanket: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. blanket, blanket: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Blanket: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. blanket: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Blanket: Fiberglass Glossary
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See blanketed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A heavy, loosely woven fabric, usually large and woollen, used for warmth while sleeping or resting.
noun:  A layer of anything.
noun:  A thick rubber mat used in the offset printing process to transfer ink from the plate to the paper being printed.
noun:  A streak or layer of blubber in whales.
adjective:  General; covering or encompassing everything.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with, or as if with, a blanket.
verb:  (transitive) To traverse or complete thoroughly.
verb:  (transitive) To toss in a blanket by way of punishment.
verb:  (transitive) To take the wind out of the sails of (another vessel) by sailing to windward of it.
verb:  (transitive) To nullify the impact of (someone or something).
verb:  Of a radio signal: to override or block out another radio signal.

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