Usually means: Flowering plant, often symbolizes purity.
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We found 45 dictionaries that define the word lily:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lily: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lily: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lily: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lily: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lily, lily: Wordnik
  7. lily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Lily, lily: Wiktionary
  9. lily: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lily: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lily: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lily, lily: Dictionary.com
  13. lily: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lily: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lily (Christy Moore album), Lily (Japanese singer), Lily (Once Upon a Time), Lily (Wendy Matthews album), Lily (disambiguation), Lily (name), Lily (software), Lily, The Lily (Washington Post), The Lily (film), The Lily (newspaper): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lily: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lily: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lily: Rhymezone
  19. Lily: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lily: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Lily: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Lily: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. lily: Free Dictionary
  24. lily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. lily: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lily: Cook's Thesaurus
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lily: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. lily: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lily: Easton Bible
  2. Lily: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lily: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary
  2. Lily: Botanical Name listing of Plants
  3. Garden Flower, Shrub and Tree Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lily (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. lily, lily: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. The Lily: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any of several flowers in the genus Lilium of the family Liliaceae, which includes a great many ornamental species.
noun:  Any of several species of herbaceous flower which may or may not resemble the genus Lilium in some way, and which are not closely related to it or each other.
noun:  (heraldry) The flower used as a heraldic charge; also commonly used to describe the fleur-de-lis.
noun:  The end of a compass needle that should point north, traditionally often ornamented with the figure of a lily or fleur-de-lis.
noun:  (card games, usually in the plural) A royal spade in auction bridge.
noun:  (cartomancy) The thirtieth Lenormand card, representing calmness and maturity.
adjective:  (slang, derogatory) White (as a racial epithet).
noun:  A female given name from English. Popular around 1900 and currently returning to favor.

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