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

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. narrow: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. narrow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. narrow: Idioms
  3. narrow: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having a small width; not wide; having opposite edges or sides that are close, especially by comparison to length or depth.
adjective:  Of little extent; very limited; circumscribed.
adjective:  (figuratively) Restrictive; without flexibility or latitude.
adjective:  Having a small margin or degree.
adjective:  (dated) Limited as to means; straitened
adjective:  Parsimonious; niggardly; covetous; selfish.
adjective:  Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact.
adjective:  (phonetics) Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; distinguished from wide.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) A narrow passage, especially a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce in width or extent; to contract.
verb:  (intransitive) To get narrower.
verb:  (of a person or eyes) To partially lower one's eyelids in a way usually taken to suggest a defensive, aggressive or penetrating look.
verb:  (knitting) To contract the size of, as a stocking, by taking two stitches into one.
verb:  (transitive, programming) To convert to a data type that cannot hold as many distinct values.
adjective:  Contracted; of limited scope; bigoted

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