Usually means: Fiber from plants, makes fabric.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word cotton:

General (36 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cotton, cotton: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cotton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cotton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cotton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cotton: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cotton, cotton: Wordnik
  7. cotton: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cotton, cotton: Wiktionary
  9. cotton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cotton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cotton: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. cotton: Dictionary.com
  13. cotton (n.), cotton (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cotton: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cotton (album), Cotton (disambiguation), Cotton (motorcycle), Cotton (series), Cotton (surname), Cotton (video game), Cotton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cotton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cotton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cotton: Rhymezone
  19. cotton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cotton: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Cotton (needle cotton): Britih-American Dictionary
  22. Cotton: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. cotton: Free Dictionary
  24. cotton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Cotton, cotton: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. Cotton (verb): The Word Detective
  27. Cotton: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cotton: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cotton: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. cotton: Medical dictionary

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

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Cotton: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cotton: Archaeology Wordsmith
  2. Cotton: HYPP Zoology

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

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Cotton: Glossary of Paper Terms
  4. Textile (No longer online)

(Note: See cottoned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Gossypium, a genus of plant used as a source of cotton fiber.
noun:  Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
noun:  Any fiber similar in appearance and use to Gossypium fiber.
noun:  (textiles) The textile made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
noun:  (countable) An item of clothing made from cotton.
adjective:  Made of cotton.
verb:  (transitive) To provide with cotton.
verb:  To supply with a cotton wick.
verb:  To fill with a wad of cotton.
verb:  (horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
verb:  To cover walls with fabric.
verb:  (tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
verb:  To make or become cotton-like
verb:  To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
verb:  To develop a porous, cottony texture.
verb:  To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
verb:  To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
verb:  To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
verb:  To rub or burnish with cotton.
verb:  To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
noun:  The name of several settlements around the world
noun:  A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0645).
noun:  A habitational surname from Old English.
noun:  A surname from Hebrew.

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