Usually means: Diverse sources, styles, ideas combined.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word eclectic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. eclectic: Merriam-Webster
  2. Eclectic, eclectic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eclectic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. eclectic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. eclectic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Eclectic, eclectic: Wordnik
  7. eclectic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. eclectic: Wiktionary
  9. eclectic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. eclectic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. eclectic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. eclectic: Dictionary.com
  13. eclectic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Eclectic (Big Country album), Eclectic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Eclectic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. eclectic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. eclectic: Rhymezone
  18. Eclectic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. eclectic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. eclectic: FreeDictionary.org
  21. eclectic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. eclectic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. eclectic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eclectic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. eclectic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. eclectic: Natural Health glossary
  3. Eclectic: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. eclectic: Medical dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eclectic: Golfer's Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Selecting a mixture of what appears to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.
adjective:  Unrelated and unspecialized; heterogeneous.
noun:  Someone who selects according to the eclectic method.

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