Usually means: Devoutly religious, deeply reverent, faithful.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word pious:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pious: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pious: Merriam-Webster
  3. pious: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pious: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pious: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pious: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pious, pious: Wordnik
  8. pious: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pious: Wiktionary
  10. pious: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pious: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pious: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pious, pious, the pious: Dictionary.com
  14. pious: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pious: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pious (novel), Pious: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pious: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pious: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pious: Rhymezone
  20. pious: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pious: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pious: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pious: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pious: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. pious: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Pious: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pious-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pious: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pious: Encyclopedia

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pious: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pious: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or pertaining to piety, exhibiting piety, devout, god-fearing.
adjective:  Relating to religion or religious works.
adjective:  Insisting on or making a show of one's own virtue, especially in comparison to others; sanctimonious, condescending, judgmental.

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