Usually means: Traveling by ship for pleasure.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word cruise:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. cruise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. cruise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cruise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cruise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cruise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cruise, cruise: Wordnik
  7. cruise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Cruise, cruise: Wiktionary
  9. cruise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. cruise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. cruise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Cruise, cruise: Dictionary.com
  13. cruise: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. cruise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Cruise (Akina Nakamori album), Cruise (Whitehouse album), Cruise (aeronautics), Cruise (automotive), Cruise (autonomous vehicle), Cruise (band), Cruise (disambiguation), Cruise (film), Cruise (flight), Cruise (name), Cruise (song), Cruise, The Cruise (Brooklyn Nine-Nine): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Cruise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. cruise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. cruise: Rhymezone
  19. Cruise: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. cruise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. cruise: Free Dictionary
  22. cruise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Cruise, cruise: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. cruise: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. cruise: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cruise: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cruise: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRUISE: Acronym Finder
  2. cruise: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. cruise, cruise, cruise: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. cruise: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  3. CRUISE: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See cruised as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A sea or lake voyage, especially one taken for pleasure.
noun:  (aeronautics) Portion of aircraft travel at a constant airspeed and altitude between ascent and descent phases.
noun:  (US, military, informal) A period spent in the Marine Corps.
noun:  A car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group. See Cruising (driving).
noun:  (bodybuilding, slang) A period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to a full-dosed cycle (blast).
verb:  (intransitive) To sail about, especially for pleasure.
verb:  (intransitive) To travel at constant speed for maximum operating efficiency.
verb:  (transitive) To move about an area leisurely in the hope of discovering something, or looking for custom.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, forestry) To inspect (forest land) for the purpose of estimating the quantity of lumber it will yield.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, colloquial) To actively seek a romantic partner or casual sexual partner by moving about a particular area; to troll.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To attempt to pick up as a casual sexual partner; hit on
verb:  (intransitive, child development) To walk while holding on to an object (stage in development of ambulation, typically occurring at 10 months).
verb:  (intransitive, sports) To win easily and convincingly.
verb:  (intransitive) To take part in a cruise (car enthusiasts' event where they drive their vehicles in a group).
verb:  (bodybuilding, slang) To have a period of reducing the dosage of PEDs instead of cycling them off as opposed to going through a full-dosed cycle (blast).
noun:  A small cup; cruse.
noun:  A surname from Anglo-Norman.

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