Usually means: Perfect standard for excellence, aspiration.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word ideal:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ideal: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ideal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ideal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ideal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ideal: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ideal, ideal: Wordnik
  7. ideal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Ideal, ideal: Wiktionary
  9. ideal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ideal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. ideal: Dictionary.com
  12. ideal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ideal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. IDEAL, Ideal (German band), Ideal (Lie algebra), Ideal (TV series), Ideal (album), Ideal (band), Ideal (disambiguation), Ideal (ethics), Ideal (group), Ideal (newspaper), Ideal (novel), Ideal (order theory), Ideal (play), Ideal (ring theory), Ideal (set theory), Ideal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ideal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ideal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ideal: Rhymezone
  18. ideal, ideal, ideal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ideal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ideal: Free Dictionary
  21. ideal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ideal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. ideal: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. ideal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ideal: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Ideal: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. ideal: Glossary of research economics
  3. Ideal (disambiguation), ideal: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. IDEAL, ideal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Ideal (disambiguation), Ideal (ring theory), ideal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. IDEAL, Ideal (disambiguation): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  3. IDEAL: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ideal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. ideal, ideal, ideal, ideal, ideal, ideal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. ideal: Anthropological Terms
  4. IDEAL: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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

(Note: See idealing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Pertaining to ideas, or to a given idea.
adjective:  Existing only in the mind; conceptual, imaginary.
adjective:  Optimal; being the best possibility.
adjective:  Perfect, flawless, having no defects.
adjective:  Teaching or relating to the doctrine of idealism.
adjective:  (mathematics) Not actually present, but considered as present when limits at infinity are included.
noun:  A thing which exists in the mind but not in reality; in ontological terms, a thing which has essence but not existence.
noun:  A perfect standard of beauty, intellect etc., or a standard of excellence to aim at.
noun:  (algebra, ring theory) A subring closed under multiplication by its containing ring.
noun:  (algebra, order theory, lattice theory) A non-empty lower set (of a partially ordered set) which is closed under binary suprema (a.k.a. joins).
noun:  (set theory) A collection of sets, considered small or negligible, such that every subset of each member and the union of any two members are also members of the collection.
noun:  (algebra, Lie theory) A Lie subalgebra (subspace that is closed under the Lie bracket) 𝖍 of a given Lie algebra π–Œ such that the Lie bracket [π–Œ,𝖍] is a subset of 𝖍.
noun:  (algebra) A subsemigroup with the property that if any semigroup element outside of it is added to any one of its members, the result must lie outside of it.
noun:  A city in Georgia, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Illinois.
noun:  An unincorporated community in South Dakota.

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