Usually means: Resistance or dissent against prevailing ideas.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word opposition:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. opposition, the opposition: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. opposition, the opposition: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. opposition: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. opposition, the opposition: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Opposition, opposition: Vocabulary.com
  6. Opposition, opposition: Wordnik
  7. opposition, the Opposition, the opposition: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. opposition: Wiktionary
  9. opposition: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. opposition: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. opposition: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. opposition: Dictionary.com
  13. opposition: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. opposition: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Opposition (Australia), Opposition (Bahrain), Opposition (Croatia), Opposition (Malaysia), Opposition (Montenegro), Opposition (Myanmar), Opposition (Queensland), Opposition (Russia), Opposition (Serbia), Opposition (astrology), Opposition (astronomy), Opposition (chess), Opposition (parliamentary), Opposition (planets), Opposition (politics), Opposition, The Opposition (band): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Opposition: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. opposition: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. opposition: Rhymezone
  19. Opposition (f), opposition, opposition (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. opposition: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. opposition: Free Dictionary
  22. opposition: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. opposition: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. The Opposition, opposition: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. opposition: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Nelson Political Science Glossary (No longer online)
  3. The Opposition, opposition: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Opposition, opposition: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. opposition: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. The Opposition, opposition: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. opposition: Political
  2. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. opposition: Idioms
  4. opposition: Wordcraft Dictionary
  5. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Opposition: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Opposition: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. opposition: Nine Planets Glossary
  4. OPPOSITION: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Opposition: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Basics of Space Flight Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See oppositional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The action of opposing or of being in conflict.
noun:  An opposite or contrasting position.
noun:  (astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.
noun:  (politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.
noun:  (law) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.
noun:  (chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.
noun:  (logic) The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.

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