Usually means: Recognized and authorized by authority.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word official:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. official: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  6. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  7. Official (sports), official: Legal dictionary

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. official: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. official: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to an office or public trust.
adjective:  Derived from the proper office or officer, or from the proper authority; made or communicated by virtue of authority
adjective:  Approved by authority; authorized.
adjective:  (Of a statement) Dubious but recognized by authorities as truth and/or canon.
adjective:  (pharmaceutical) Sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia; appointed to be used in medicine; officinal.
adjective:  Discharging an office or function.
adjective:  Relating to an office; especially, to a subordinate executive officer or attendant.
adjective:  Relating to an ecclesiastical judge appointed by a bishop, chapter, archdeacon, etc., with charge of the spiritual jurisdiction.
adjective:  (informal) True, real, beyond doubt.
adjective:  (pharmacology) Listed in a national pharmacopeia.
noun:  An office holder, a person holding an official position in government, sports, or other organization.

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