Usually means: Pertaining to the nose area.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word nasal:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nasal: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nasal: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Nasal: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Nasal: Glossary of Lasik Laser Eye Surgery
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Nasal: Merck Manuals
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. nasal: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. nasal: Medical dictionary
  10. Nasal: Drug Medical Dictionary
  11. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See nasaling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (anatomy, relational) Of or pertaining to the nose or to the nasion.
adjective:  (phonetics) Having a sound imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng.
adjective:  (phonetics) Characterized by resonance in the nasal passage.
adjective:  (music) Sharp, penetrating.
noun:  (medicine, archaic) A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
noun:  (historical) The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
noun:  (zootomy) A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
noun:  An Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
noun:  (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal consonant. [A consonant sound produced by air moving though the nose with the mouth passage occluded.]
noun:  (phonetics) Ellipsis of nasal vowel. [(phonetics) A vowel that is produced with a lowering of the velum so that air escapes both through nose as well as the mouth.]
noun:  (anatomy) Ellipsis of nasal bone. [(anatomy, zootomy) Either of two bones of the skull of vertebrates above the fishes which lie in front of the frontal bones and in humans are oblong in shape forming by their junction the bridge of the nose and partly covering the nasal cavity.]

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