Usually means: Expresses possibility, permission, or wish.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. May, may: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. May, May, may, may: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. May, may, may: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. may: Collins English Dictionary
  5. May, may: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ma'y, May, ma'y, may, may, may, may: Wordnik
  7. May, may: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. May, may: Wiktionary
  9. may: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. May, may: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. may: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. May, may: Dictionary.com
  13. May, may: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. may: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. May (Guilty Gear), May (burmese singer), May (disambiguation), May (film), May (given name), May (month), May (movie), May (painting), May (pokemon), May (singer), May (surname), May: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. May: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. may: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. May: Rhymezone
  19. may: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. may: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. May: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. MAY: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. May: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. may: Free Dictionary
  25. may: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. May: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. May: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. may: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. May (month), May: Legal dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. May (month), May: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. MAY: Acronym Finder
  5. MAY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  6. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  7. may: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. May: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

(Note: See maying as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To be strong; to have power (over).
verb:  (obsolete, auxiliary) To be able; can.
verb:  (intransitive, poetic) To be able to go.
verb:  (modal auxiliary verb, defective) To have permission to, be allowed. Used in granting permission and in questions to make polite requests.
verb:  (modal auxiliary verb, defective) Expressing a present possibility; possibly.
verb:  (subjunctive present, defective, chiefly poetic) Expressing a wish (with present subjunctive effect).
verb:  Used in modesty, courtesy, or concession, or to soften a question or remark.
noun:  The hawthorn bush or its blossoms.
verb:  (poetic, intransitive) To gather may, or flowers in general.
verb:  (poetic, intransitive) To celebrate May Day.
noun:  (archaic) A maiden.
noun:  The fifth month of the Gregorian calendar, following April and preceding June.
noun:  A female given name, usually pet name for Mary and Margaret, reinforced by the month and plant meaning.
noun:  A surname from Middle English.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A former settlement in Amador County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Lemhi County, Idaho.
noun:  An unincorporated community in McDonald County, Missouri.
noun:  A small town in Harper County, Oklahoma.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Brown County, Texas.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pocahontas County, West Virginia.
noun:  A number of townships in the United States, listed under May Township.
noun:  A surname.

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