Usually means: Hold or enclose within boundaries.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word contain:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Contain: Lexicon of Linguistics

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. contain: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To hold inside.
verb:  (transitive) To include as a part.
verb:  (transitive) To put constraints upon; to restrain; to confine; to keep within bounds.
verb:  (mathematics, of a set etc., transitive) To have as an element or subset.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To restrain desire; to live in continence or chastity.

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