CHARITY meaning: Assistance to those in need

We found 46 dictionaries that define the word charity:

General (28 matching dictionaries)

charity: Merriam-Webster.com
charity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
charity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
charity: Collins English Dictionary
charity: Vocabulary.com
Charity, charity: Wordnik
charity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Charity, charity: Wiktionary
charity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
charity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
charity: Infoplease Dictionary
Charity, charity: Dictionary.com
charity: Online Etymology Dictionary
charity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Charity (disambiguation), Charity (name), Charity (novel), Charity (practice), Charity (song), Charity (virtue), Charity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Charity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
charity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
charity: Rhymezone
charity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
charity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Charity: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
charity: Free Dictionary
charity: Mnemonic Dictionary
Charity, charity: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
charity: Dictionary/thesaurus
charity: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

charity: Law.com Dictionary
Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
charity: Finance-Glossary.com
Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
Charity (disambiguation), charity: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

CHARITY: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
Charity (disambiguation), charity: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
baby names list (No longer online)
charity: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)

Charity: Easton Bible
Buddhism Glossary (No longer online)
CHARITY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

charity: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Charity: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
Charity: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  (countable) An organization, the objective of which is to carry out a charitable purpose.
▸ noun:  (countable) The goods or money given to those in need.
▸ noun:  (uncountable) Benevolence to others less fortunate than ourselves; the providing of goods or money to those in need.
▸ noun:  In general, an attitude of kindness and understanding towards others, now especially suggesting generosity.
▸ noun:  (archaic, Christianity) Christian love; representing God's love of man, man's love of God, or man's love of his fellow-men.
▸ noun:  (US, Philippines, basketball, informal) A free throw.
▸ noun:  A female given name from English.
▸ noun:  The 107th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

Opposite:

selfishness, greed, stinginess, miserliness, hoarding

Types:

Red Cross, Salvation Army, United Way, more...

Phrases:

public charity, charity work, charity school, charity commissioners, registered charity, more...

Adjectives:

christian, private, public, true, perfect, more, local, universal, divine, favorite, indiscriminate

Colors:

blue, green, red, purple, pink, yellow, orange, white, gold, silver

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