Usually means: Explanation or interpretation of text.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word gloss:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gloss, gloss-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. gloss, gloss, gloss: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gloss, gloss: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gloss, gloss, gloss-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gloss: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gloss, gloss: Wordnik
  7. gloss: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gloss, gloss-: Wiktionary
  9. gloss: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gloss: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gloss: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. GLOSS, Gloss, gloss, gloss-: Dictionary.com
  13. gloss (1), gloss (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. gloss: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. G.L.O.S.S, Gloss (TV series), Gloss (annotation), Gloss (comics), Gloss (film), Gloss (margin text), Gloss (material appearance), Gloss (optics), Gloss (paint), Gloss (transliteration), Gloss: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Gloss/, Gloss: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. gloss: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. gloss: Rhymezone
  19. Gloss/, gloss: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. gloss: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. gloss: Free Dictionary
  22. gloss: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Gloss, gloss: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. GLOSS-, gloss, gloss: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Gloss: Health & Beauty Glossary
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  4. gloss-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. gloss: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Gloss (material appearance), gloss: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. gloss, gloss(o)-, gloss-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLOSS-, GLOSS: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. gloss: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  3. GLOSS: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

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

Tech (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. GLOSS: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Gloss: Beauty & Health Glossary
  6. Paper Making (No longer online)

(Note: See glossed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A surface shine or luster.
noun:  (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
verb:  (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
verb:  (intransitive) To become shiny.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
noun:  (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
noun:  (countable) A glossary; a collection of such notes.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
noun:  (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
noun:  (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
verb:  (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).

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