Usually means: Protection against harm or attack.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word defence:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. defence: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. defence: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. defence: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. defence, the defence: Collins English Dictionary
  5. defence: Vocabulary.com
  6. Defence, defence: Wordnik
  7. defence, the defence: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. defence: Wiktionary
  9. defence: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. defence: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Defence, defence, the defence: Dictionary.com
  12. Defence (military), Defence: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Defence: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. defence: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. defence: Rhymezone
  16. Defence: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. defence: Free Dictionary
  18. defence: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. defence: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  20. defence: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. defence: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Defence, The Defence: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defence: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defence: Idioms

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Defence (Lines of), Defence: Dictionary of Military Architecture

(Note: See defences as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action of defending, of protecting from attack, danger or injury.
noun:  Something used to oppose attacks.
noun:  An argument in support or justification of something.
noun:  (team sports) A strategy and tactics employed to prevent the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
noun:  (team sports) The portion of a team dedicated to preventing the other team from scoring; contrasted with offence.
noun:  Government policy or (infra)structure related to the military.
noun:  (obsolete) Prohibition; a prohibitory ordinance.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To furnish with defences; to fortify.

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