Usually means: Nocturnal bird, known for wisdom.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word owl:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. owl: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. owl: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. owl: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. owl: Collins English Dictionary
  5. owl: Vocabulary.com
  6. Owl, owl: Wordnik
  7. owl: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. OWL, owl: Wiktionary
  9. owl: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. owl: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. owl: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. OWL: Dictionary.com
  13. owl: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. owl: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. OWL (magazine), OWL, Owl (Dell Comics), Owl (Marvel Comics), Owl (Winnie-the-Pooh), Owl (Winnie the Pooh), Owl (band), Owl (bird), Owl (disambiguation), Owl (film), Owl (hieroglyph), Owl, The Owl (TV series), The Owl (album), The Owl (fairy tale): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Owl: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. owl: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. owl: Rhymezone
  19. Owl: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. owl: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. OWL: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Owl, Owl: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. owl: Free Dictionary
  24. owl: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. owl: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. owl: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. owl: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. OWL, Owl: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. OWL: Netlingo
  3. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  4. Webopedia (No longer online)
  5. owl: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. OWL: Acronym Finder
  4. OWL: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. owl: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Owl: Easton Bible
  2. Owl: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. owl, owl, owl: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. The Owl, the oWL: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See owling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of various birds of prey of the order Strigiformes that are primarily nocturnal and have forward-looking, binocular vision, limited eye movement, and good hearing.
noun:  (by extension) A person seen as having owl-like characteristics, especially appearing wise or serious, or being nocturnally active.
noun:  An owl pigeon.
noun:  (politics, uncommon) A politician with moderate views that are neither hawkish nor dovish.
noun:  Any of various nymphalid butterflies, especially in the genus Caligo, having large eyespots on the wings.
verb:  (archaic, intransitive) To smuggle contraband goods.
noun:  (computer languages) Initialism of Web Ontology Language. [(computing, Internet) A formal language (or family of languages) used to draw inferences from a large data set, especially from the Semantic Web]

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