Usually means: Entity with distinct, independent existence.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word object:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. object: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. object: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. object: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. object: Collins English Dictionary
  5. object: Vocabulary.com
  6. Object, object: Wordnik
  7. object: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. object: Wiktionary
  9. object: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. object: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. object: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. object, object: Dictionary.com
  13. object (n.), object (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. object: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Object (computer science), Object (computing), Object (grammar), Object (image processing), Object (linguistics), Object (mathematics), Object (object-oriented programming), Object (philosophy), Object (physics), Object (programming), Object: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Object: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. object: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. object: Rhymezone
  19. Object: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. object: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. object: Free Dictionary
  22. object: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. object: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. object: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. object: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Object: Glossary of Binary Graphics
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Object: Lexicon of Linguistics
  6. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. object: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. object: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. object: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Object, object: CCI Computer
  3. Object: Game Dictionary
  4. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  7. object: Encyclopedia
  8. Windows API Guide (No longer online)

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. object: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. OBJECT: Acronym Finder
  2. object: Idioms
  3. object: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Object: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. object: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Embroidery Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See objected as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A thing that has physical existence but is not alive.
noun:  Objective; goal, end or purpose of something.
noun:  (grammar) The noun phrase which is an internal complement of a verb phrase or a prepositional phrase. In a verb phrase with a transitive action verb, it is typically the receiver of the action.
noun:  A person or thing toward which an emotion is directed.
noun:  (object-oriented programming) An instantiation of a class or structure.
noun:  (category theory) An instance of one of the two kinds of entities that form a category, the other kind being the arrows (also called morphisms).
noun:  (obsolete) Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
verb:  (intransitive) To disagree with or oppose something or someone; (especially in a Court of Law) to raise an objection.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To offer in opposition as a criminal charge or by way of accusation or reproach; to adduce as an objection or adverse reason.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose.

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