Usually means: Equitable treatment without favoritism shown.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word fair:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. fair: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fair, fair, fair: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fair, fair: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fair: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fair: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fair, fair: Wordnik
  7. fair: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fair: Wiktionary
  9. fair: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fair: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fair: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. The fair, fair: Dictionary.com
  13. fair (adj.), fair (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fair: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fair (band), Fair (disambiguation), Fair (surname), Fair, The Fair (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Fair: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. fair: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. fair: Rhymezone
  19. fair: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. fair: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Fair, Fair, Fair, Fair: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. fair, the fair: Free Dictionary
  23. fair: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Fair, fair: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. The fair, fair: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. fair: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. the fair: Wordnik
  28. FAIR: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Coin Collecting Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. FAIR: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. fair: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Fair (disambiguation), fair: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. FAIR: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. fair: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. FAIR: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. fair: Idioms
  6. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. fair, fair, fair: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Fair: Urban Dictionary

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Fair: Coin Collecting
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Fair, Fair: Latitude Mexico
  6. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See fairer as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (original sense, archaic or literary) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
adjective:  Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
adjective:  Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
adjective:  Just, equitable.
adjective:  Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
adjective:  (nautical, of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.
adjective:  Favorable, pleasant.
adjective:  Not overcast; cloudless; clear.
adjective:  Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
adjective:  (shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
adjective:  (baseball) Between the baselines.
adjective:  (rugby, of a catch) Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
adjective:  (cricket, of a ball delivered by the bowler) Not a no ball.
adjective:  (statistics) Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.
noun:  Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
noun:  (obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
noun:  (obsolete) Fairness, beauty.
noun:  A fair woman; a sweetheart.
noun:  (obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.
verb:  (transitive) To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
verb:  (transitive) To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
verb:  (transitive, art) To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
verb:  (transitive) To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.
adverb:  Clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably.
noun:  A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
noun:  An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
noun:  An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
noun:  A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).

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