Usually means: False report or unfounded rumor.
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  1. canard: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. canard: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. canard: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. canard: Collins English Dictionary
  5. canard: Vocabulary.com
  6. Canard, canard: Wordnik
  7. canard: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. canard: Wiktionary
  9. canard: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. canard: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. canard: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Canard, canard: Dictionary.com
  13. canard: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Canard (aeronautics), Canard (disambiguation), Canard: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Canard: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. canard: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. canard: Rhymezone
  18. Canard: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. Canard: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. canard: Free Dictionary
  21. canard: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  22. canard: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. canard: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Canard: The Word Detective
  25. canard: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. Epicurus.com Food Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canard: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canard: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. canard: A Word A Day

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A false or misleading report or story, especially if deliberately so.
noun:  (aviation) A type of aircraft in which the primary horizontal control and stabilization surfaces are in front of the main wing.
noun:  (aviation, by extension) A horizontal control and stabilization surface located in front of the main wing of an aircraft.
noun:  (transport, engineering, by extension) Any small winglike structure on a vehicle, usually used for stabilization.

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