Usually means: Prepare, arrange appearance for event.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. groom: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. groom: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. groom: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. groom: Collins English Dictionary
  5. groom: Vocabulary.com
  6. Groom, groom: Wordnik
  7. groom: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Groom, groom: Wiktionary
  9. groom: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. groom: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. groom: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Groom, groom: Dictionary.com
  13. groom (1), groom (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. groom: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Groom (disambiguation), Groom (horses), Groom (profession), Groom (surname), Groom, The Groom: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Groom: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. groom: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. groom: Rhymezone
  19. groom: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. groom: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Groom: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. groom: Free Dictionary
  23. groom: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Groom, groom: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. Groom: The Word Detective
  26. groom: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. groom: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. groom: Legal dictionary

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  1. groom: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. groom: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. groom: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. groom: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Groom: Sports Definitions

(Note: See groomed as well.)

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noun:  A man who is about to marry.
noun:  A person who looks after horses.
noun:  One of several officers of the English royal household, chiefly in the lord chamberlain's department.
noun:  (archaic) A male servant, or more generally, a common man.
noun:  A brushing or cleaning, as of a dog or horse.
verb:  To attend to one's appearance and clothing.
verb:  (transitive) To care for (horses or other animals) by brushing and cleaning them.
verb:  (transitive) To prepare (someone) for an event
verb:  (transitive) To prepare (someone) for election or appointment.
verb:  (transitive) To attempt to gain the trust of a minor with the intention of luring them into a sexual relationship.
verb:  (transitive, software engineering) In agile software development, to review and prioritize the items in the development backlog.
verb:  (transitive) To prepare (a ski slope) for skiers by packing down the snow.
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation for a servant.
noun:  A town in Carson County, Texas, United States.

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