DEFINE meaning: Specify meaning of a word

We found 34 dictionaries that define the word define:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

define: Merriam-Webster.com
define: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
define: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
define: Collins English Dictionary
define: Vocabulary.com
Define, define: Wordnik
define: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
define: Wiktionary
define: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
define: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
define: Infoplease Dictionary
Define, define: Dictionary.com
define: Online Etymology Dictionary
define: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Define: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Define: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
define: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
define: Rhymezone
define: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
define: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
define: Free Dictionary
define: Mnemonic Dictionary
define: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
define: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

define: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

define: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

define: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)
define: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

define: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

define: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ verb:  To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
▸ verb:  (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.)
▸ verb:  To express the essential nature of something.
▸ verb:  To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
▸ verb:  To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
▸ verb:  To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
▸ verb:  (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
▸ noun:  (programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.

Opposite:

obscure, confuse, distort, complicate, blur

Types:

definition, synonym, antonym, hypernym, hyponym, meronym, holonym, more...

Phrases:

Define the Great Line, define me, hard to define, to define, difficult to define, more...

Colors:

blue, red, green, yellow, orange, purple, pink, brown, black, white

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