Usually means: Territory entirely surrounded by another.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word enclave:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. enclave: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. enclave: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enclave: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enclave: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enclave: Vocabulary.com
  6. Enclave, enclave: Wordnik
  7. enclave: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. enclave: Wiktionary
  9. enclave: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enclave: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enclave: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. enclave: Dictionary.com
  13. enclave: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. enclave: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Enclave (comics), Enclave (disambiguation), Enclave (film), Enclave (geology), Enclave (video game), Enclave, The Enclave (record label), The Enclave: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Enclave: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. enclave: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. enclave: Rhymezone
  19. Enclave: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. enclave: Free Dictionary
  21. enclave: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. enclave: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. enclave: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. enclave: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enclave: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. enclave: Political
  2. enclave: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A political, cultural or social entity or part thereof that is completely surrounded by another.
noun:  A group that is set off from a larger population by its characteristic or behavior.
noun:  (computing) An isolated portion of an application's address space, such that data in an enclave can only be accessed by code in the same enclave.
verb:  (transitive) To enclose within a foreign territory.

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