Usually means: Intense desire or craving, usually sexual.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. lust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. lust: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lust: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lust, lust: Wordnik
  6. lust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lust: Wiktionary
  8. lust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lust: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lust: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. LUST: Dictionary.com
  12. lust: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. lust: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Lust: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lust: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lust: Rhymezone
  18. lust: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lust: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. LUST: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. lust: Free Dictionary
  22. lust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lust: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. lust: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lust-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lust (disambiguation), lust: Legal dictionary
  2. LUST, Lust (disambiguation): Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lust: Encyclopedia
  2. Lust (disambiguation): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LUST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. lust: Idioms
  5. lust: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lust: Easton Bible
  2. Lust: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. LUST: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LUST: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

(Note: See lusted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
noun:  (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
noun:  (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
noun:  (obsolete) Virility; vigour; active power.
verb:  (intransitive, usually in the phrase lust after) To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
verb:  (archaic; transitive or intransitive with after, for, to, etc.; formerly also reflexive) To desire.

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