Usually means: Unpleasant sensory and emotional experience.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pain: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pain: Merriam-Webster
  3. pain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pain: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pain: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pain, pain, pain: Wordnik
  8. pain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. PAIN, Pain, pain: Wiktionary
  10. pain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pain: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pain: Dictionary.com
  14. pain (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pain: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Pain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pain: Rhymezone
  20. pain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pain: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. pain: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pain: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. pain: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. pain, pain (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. pain: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
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  4. Epicurus.com French Glossary (No longer online)
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  6. Body Piercing Glossary (No longer online)
  7. pain-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. pain: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. pain: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. pain: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pain: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Pain: Merck Manuals
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  7. Pain: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  8. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  9. pain: Medical dictionary
  10. Pain: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
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  4. PAIN: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. pain: Idioms
  7. pain: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Pain: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable and uncountable) An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
noun:  (now usually in the plural) The pangs or sufferings of childbirth, caused by contractions of the uterus.
noun:  (uncountable) The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
noun:  (countable, from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
noun:  (uncountable, dated) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Labour; effort; great care or trouble taken in doing something.
verb:  (transitive) To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
verb:  (transitive) To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
verb:  (intransitive, India) To feel pain; to hurt.
noun:  (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  Acronym of pan-assay interference compound. [Any compound that produces a false positive in many biochemical assays]

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