Usually means: Substance or element facilitating communication.
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We found 64 dictionaries that define the word medium:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. medium: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. medium: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. medium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. medium: Collins English Dictionary
  5. medium: Vocabulary.com
  6. Medium, medium: Wordnik
  7. medium: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. medium: Wiktionary
  9. medium: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. medium: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. medium: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. medium: Dictionary.com
  13. medium (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. medium: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Medium (TV Series), Medium (TV series), Medium (arts), Medium (band), Medium (communication), Medium (disambiguation), Medium (optics), Medium (publishing platform), Medium (season Medium+++(season+++1)), Medium (season 2), Medium (season 3), Medium (season 4), Medium (season 5), Medium (season 6), Medium (season 7), Medium (service), Medium (spirituality), Medium (website), Medium, The Medium (Rutgers), The Medium: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Medium: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. medium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. medium: Rhymezone
  19. Medium (nt), medium, medium, medium, medium (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. medium: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. medium: Free Dictionary
  22. medium: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. medium: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Medium: World Wide Words
  25. medium: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. medium: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus

Art (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. medium: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Medium: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  4. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  5. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  6. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  7. Medium: art glossary
  8. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  9. MEDIUM: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Medium (bearer), Medium (disambiguation), medium: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Medium (bearer), Medium (disambiguation), medium: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medium (bearer), Medium (disambiguation), Medium (optics), medium: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medium: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  3. medium: The Skeptic's Dictionary
  4. medium: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. medium: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. ORCHID GLOSSARY (No longer online)
  3. medium: PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. medium: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Medium: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. medium: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. MEDIUM: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  3. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  5. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See media as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The material of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum, or a specific substance such as a solvent.
noun:  The materials or empty space through which signals, waves, or forces pass.
noun:  A format for communicating or presenting information.
noun:  (microbiology) A nutrient substance, commonly a solution or solid, for the growth of cells in vitro.
noun:  (biology, horticulture etc.) A substance, structure, or environment in which living organisms subsist, grow or are cultured.
noun:  A means, channel, agency or go-between through which communication, commerce, etc is conveyed or carried on, or by which an aim is achieved.
noun:  (engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing or abrasive blasting process.
noun:  (countable, plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
noun:  (painting) A means of expression, in the arts, such as a material (oil, pastel, clay, etc) or method or style (expressionism, jazz, etc).
noun:  (countable, logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
noun:  (countable, spiritualism, plural mediums) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
noun:  (countable) A middle place or degree.
noun:  (countable, dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
noun:  Anything of a middle rank or position.
noun:  (uncountable, especially clothing, food or drink) One of several common sizes to which an item may be manufactured.
noun:  (countable, especially clothing, food or drink) An item labelled or denoted as being that size.
noun:  (countable, especially with respect to clothing) One who fits an item of that size.
noun:  (countable, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
adjective:  (obsolete) Arithmetically average.
adjective:  Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
adjective:  Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still red in the centre.
adjective:  (especially clothing, food or drink) That is medium (the manufactured size).
adverb:  To a medium extent.

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