Usually means: Noxious vapors causing disease; stench.
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  1. miasma: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. miasma: Collins English Dictionary
  3. miasma: Vocabulary.com
  4. Miasma, miasma: Wordnik
  5. miasma: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. miasma: Wiktionary
  7. miasma: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. miasma: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. miasma: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. miasma: Dictionary.com
  11. miasma: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Miasma (Greek mythology), Miasma (album), Miasma: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Miasma: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. miasma: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. miasma: Rhymezone
  16. Miasma: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. miasma: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. miasma: Free Dictionary
  19. miasma: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. miasma: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. miasma: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  22. miasma: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. miasma: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. miasma: Merriam-Webster.com
  25. miasma: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. miasma-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

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  1. miasma: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Miasma: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  3. miasma: Medical dictionary
  4. Miasma: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Miasma, Miasma, Miasma: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. miasma: A Word A Day
  3. miasma: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MIASMA: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

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

(Note: See miasmal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A noxious atmosphere or emanation once thought to originate from swamps and waste, and to cause disease.
noun:  (figurative) A noxious atmosphere or influence, an ominous environment.

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