Usually means: Severe trial testing endurance, character.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. ordeal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. ordeal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. ordeal: Collins English Dictionary
  4. ordeal: Vocabulary.com
  5. Ordeal, ordeal: Wordnik
  6. ordeal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. ordeal: Wiktionary
  8. ordeal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. ordeal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. ordeal: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Ordeal, ordeal: Dictionary.com
  12. ordeal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ordeal: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Ordeal (Skepticism album), Ordeal (UFO), Ordeal (album), Ordeal (autobiography), Ordeal, The Ordeal (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ordeal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ordeal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ordeal: Rhymezone
  18. ordeal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ordeal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Ordeal: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. ordeal: Free Dictionary
  22. ordeal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ordeal: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. ordeal: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ORDEAL: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. ordeal: Legal dictionary

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  1. ordeal: Encyclopedia

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A painful or trying experience.
noun:  A trial in which the accused was subjected to a dangerous test (such as ducking in water), divine authority deciding the guilt of the accused.
noun:  The poisonous ordeal bean or Calabar bean

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