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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word have:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. have: Legal dictionary
  2. have: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. have: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HAVE: Acronym Finder
  3. have: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. have, have: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. have: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. have, have (pronounced: hay-v): Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To possess, own.
verb:  (transitive) To hold, as something at someone's disposal.
verb:  (transitive) To include as a part, ingredient, or feature.
verb:  (transitive) Used to state the existence or presence of someone in a specified relationship with the subject.
verb:  (transitive) To consume or use up (a particular substance or resource, especially food or drink).
verb:  (transitive) To undertake or perform (an action or activity).
verb:  (transitive) To be scheduled to attend, undertake or participate in.
verb:  (transitive) To experience, go through, undergo.
verb:  (transitive) To be afflicted with, suffer from.
verb:  (auxiliary verb, taking a past participle) Used in forming the perfect aspect.
verb:  Used as an interrogative verb before a pronoun to form a tag question, echoing a previous use of 'have' as an auxiliary verb or, in certain cases, main verb. (For further discussion, see the appendix English tag questions.)
verb:  (auxiliary verb, taking a to-infinitive) See have to.
verb:  (transitive) To give birth to.
verb:  (informal, usually passive) To obtain.
verb:  (transitive) To engage in sexual intercourse with.
verb:  (transitive) To accept as a romantic partner.
verb:  (transitive with bare infinitive) To cause to, by a command, request or invitation.
verb:  (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To cause to be.
verb:  (transitive with bare infinitive) To be affected by an occurrence. (Used in supplying a topic that is not a verb argument.)
verb:  (transitive with adjective or adjective-phrase complement) To depict as being.
verb:  (British, slang, transitive) To defeat in a fight; take.
verb:  (British, slang, transitive) To inflict punishment or retribution on.
verb:  (dated outside Ireland, transitive) To be able to speak (a language).
verb:  (transitive) To feel or be (especially painfully) aware of.
verb:  (informal, often passive, transitive) To trick, to deceive.
verb:  (transitive, in the negative, often in continuous tenses) To allow; to tolerate.
verb:  (transitive, often used in the negative) To believe, buy, be taken in by.
verb:  (transitive) To host someone; to take in as a guest.
verb:  (transitive) To get a reading, measurement, or result from an instrument or calculation.
verb:  (transitive, of a jury) To consider a court proceeding that has been completed; to begin deliberations on a case.
verb:  (transitive, birdwatching) To make an observation of (a bird species).
verb:  (transitive) To capture or actively hold someone's attention or interest.
verb:  (transitive) To grasp the meaning of; comprehend.
noun:  (usually contrastive) A wealthy or privileged person.
noun:  (uncommon) One who has some (contextually specified) thing.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fraud or deception; something misleading.

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