Usually means: Metallic element, strong, magnetic properties.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. iron: Merriam-Webster
  2. iron: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. iron: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. iron: Collins English Dictionary
  5. iron: Vocabulary.com
  6. Iron, iron: Wordnik
  7. iron: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Iron: Wiktionary
  9. iron: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. iron: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. iron: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. iron, iron: Dictionary.com
  13. iron: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. iron: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. IRON, Iron(II), Iron(III), Iron (Ensiferum), Iron (Ensiferum album), Iron (Woodkid song), Iron (appliance), Iron (dialect), Iron (disambiguation), Iron (element), Iron (golf), Iron (golf club), Iron (material), Iron (metaphor), Iron (mineral), Iron (people), Iron (planes), Iron (rapper), Iron: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Iron: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. iron: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. iron: Rhymezone
  19. iron: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. iron: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Iron, Iron: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. iron: FreeDictionary.org
  23. iron: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. iron: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. iron: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. iron: Wiktionary
  27. iron: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. iron: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Iron: Health & Beauty Glossary
  3. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  4. iron-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  5. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Iron (element), Iron (mineral), iron: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. iron: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Iron (appliance), Iron (element), Iron (mineral), iron: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. iron: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Iron: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Johnson Bwby (No longer online)
  6. Iron: Merck Manuals
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  9. iron: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. iron: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  11. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  12. Iron (element), Iron (mineral), iron: Medical dictionary
  13. Iron: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. IRON: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. iron: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Iron: Easton Bible
  2. Iron, Iron: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. IRON: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Iron: Eric Weisstein's World of Chemistry
  3. IRON: The Mineral Gallery
  4. Iron: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. iron: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements
  6. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)
  7. Iron: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. iron, iron, iron: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. iron: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. iron: Urban Dictionary
  4. Iron: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Iron: Body Building
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)
  4. iron: Golfer's Dictionary
  5. Iron: Sports Definitions

Tech (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)
  5. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  6. Iron: Beauty & Health Glossary
  7. Illustrated Glass Dictionary (No longer online)
  8. Bridge and Tunnels Terminology (No longer online)
  9. Pool Glossary (No longer online)
  10. IRON: Power Engineering

(Note: See ironed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) A common, inexpensive metal, silvery grey when untarnished, that rusts, is attracted by magnets, and is used in making steel: a chemical element having atomic number 26 and symbol Fe.
noun:  (uncountable, countable, metallurgy) Any material, not a steel, predominantly made of elemental iron.
noun:  (countable) A tool or appliance made of metal, which is heated and then used to transfer heat to something else; most often a thick piece of metal fitted with a handle and having a flat, roughly triangular bottom, which is heated and used to press wrinkles from clothing, and now usually containing an electrical heating apparatus.
noun:  (usually in the plural, irons) Shackles.
noun:  (slang) A firearm, either a long gun or a handgun.
noun:  (uncountable) A dark shade of the color silver.
noun:  (countable, Cockney rhyming slang, offensive, shortened from iron hoof, rhyming with poof) A male homosexual.
noun:  (golf) A golf club used for middle-distance shots.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative) Used as a symbol of great strength or toughness, or to signify a very strong or tough material.
noun:  (weightlifting) Weight used as resistance for the purpose of strength training.
noun:  (countable, astronomy, geology) A meteorite consisting primarily of metallic iron (mixed with a small amount of nickel), as opposed to one composed mainly of stony material.
noun:  A safety curtain in a theatre.
noun:  (military, slang) Dumb bombs, those without guidance systems.
adjective:  (not comparable) Made of the metal iron.
adjective:  (figuratively) Strong (as of will), inflexible.
verb:  (transitive) To pass an iron over (clothing or some other item made of cloth) in order to remove creases.
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in such pressing of clothing.
verb:  (transitive, archaic) To shackle with irons; to fetter or handcuff.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish, clad, or arm with iron.
noun:  The 57th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
noun:  A group of Ossetians of the northern Caucasus who speak the Iron Ossetian dialect.
adjective:  Of or pertaining to the Iron people.

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