Usually means: Narrow strip connecting two landmasses.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word isthmus:

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

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Isthmus: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. isthmus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Isthmus: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  5. isthmus: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. isthmus: Medical dictionary
  7. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. isthmus: A Word A Day

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Isthmus: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See isthmi as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (geography) A narrow strip of land, bordered on both sides by water, and connecting two larger landmasses.
noun:  (anatomy) Any such narrow part connecting two larger structures.
noun:  (graph theory) An edge in a graph whose deletion increases the number of connected components of the graph.

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