Usually means: Giving more than is expected.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word generous:

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

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

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generous: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generous: Idioms

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

(Note: See generously as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Noble in behaviour or actions; principled, not petty; kind, magnanimous.
adjective:  Willing to give and share unsparingly; showing a readiness to give more (especially money) than is expected or needed.
adjective:  Large, more than ample, copious.
adjective:  Invigorating in its nature.
adjective:  (obsolete) Of noble birth.

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