Usually means: Slanted font style for emphasis.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word italic:

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

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. italic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. italic: Encyclopedia

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

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

(Note: See italics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (typography, of a typeface or font) Designed to resemble a handwriting style developed in Italy in the 16th century.
adjective:  (typography, of a typeface or font) Having letters that slant or lean to the right; oblique.
noun:  (typography) A typeface in which the letters slant to the right.
noun:  An oblique handwriting style, such as used by Italian calligraphers of the Renaissance.
adjective:  Of or relating to the Italian peninsula.
adjective:  (Indo-European studies) Pertaining to a subfamily of the Centum branch of the Indo-European language family, that includes Latin and other languages (as Oscan, Umbrian) spoken by the peoples of ancient Italy
adjective:  (dated) Osco-Umbrian; an extinct branch of such language family, which excludes the Latino-Faliscan languages
adjective:  (historical) Pertaining to various peoples that lived in Italy before the establishment of the Roman Empire, or to any of several alphabet systems used by those peoples.
noun:  The Italic family taken as a whole.

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