Usually means: Lowest point; opposite of zenith.
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  1. nadir: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. nadir: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nadir: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. nadir: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Nadir, nadir: Wiktionary
  9. nadir: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  14. Nadir (disambiguation), Nadir (name), Nadir (topography), Nadir: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Nadir: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. nadir: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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  18. Nadir: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. nadir: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  24. nadir: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Nadir: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. nadir: Encyclopedia

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  9. nadir: Medical dictionary
  10. Nadir: Drug Medical Dictionary

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  4. nadir: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nadir: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
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  3. Nadir: Extragalactic Astronomy
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  1. nadir: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
noun:  (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
noun:  (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
noun:  (beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
verb:  (transitive, beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A surname.

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