Usually means: Incorrect or misleading name designation.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word misnomer:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. misnomer: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. misnomer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. misnomer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. misnomer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. misnomer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Misnomer, misnomer: Wordnik
  7. misnomer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. misnomer: Wiktionary
  9. misnomer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. misnomer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. misnomer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. misnomer: Dictionary.com
  13. misnomer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. misnomer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Misnomer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Misnomer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. misnomer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. misnomer: Rhymezone
  19. Misnomer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. misnomer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. misnomer: Free Dictionary
  22. misnomer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. misnomer: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. misnomer: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. misnomer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. misnomer: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. misnomer: Law.com Dictionary
  4. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. misnomer: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skin Cancer Information (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MISNOMER, MISNOMER, MISNOMER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

(Note: See misnomered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A use of a term that is misleading; a misname.
noun:  A term that is misleading, even if it may not be incorrect.
noun:  A term whose sense in common usage conflicts with a technical sense.
noun:  (proscribed, nonstandard) something asserted not to be true; a myth or mistaken belief
verb:  (transitive) To use a misleading term; to misname.

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