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

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  2. intellect-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. INTELLECT: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. intellect: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. intellect: Medical dictionary
  4. Intellect: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Intellect: Catholic Encyclopedia

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

(Note: See intellects as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (uncountable) The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty.
noun:  (uncountable) The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person).
noun:  A person who has that faculty to a great degree.

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