Usually means: Prefix meaning "again" or "back."
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We found 64 dictionaries that define the word re:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. Re, 're, re, re-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. RE, Re, Re, Re, Re, re, re, re, re-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. RE, Re, re, re, re-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. 're, re, re-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Re, re: Vocabulary.com
  6. R.E, RE, Re, re, re, re, re, re, re, re-, rE: Wordnik
  7. 're, re, re-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. 're, r.e, re, re-: Wiktionary
  9. -'re, re, re-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Re, re, re, re-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. re: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Re, 're, .re, r.e, re, re-: Dictionary.com
  13. re, re-: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. re, re-: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RE (automobile), RE (complexity), RE (e-mail), RE, ...Re, ...Re (film), Re(cord), Re(mix), Re (Egyptian religion), Re (interjection), Re (kana), Re, Re, 're, .re: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Re-, Re: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. re, re-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. re: Rhymezone
  19. Re-, Re, re: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. re: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. re, re-: MyWord.info
  22. RE, Re, .re: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Re: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. re, re-: Free Dictionary
  25. re: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Re, re: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  27. RE, re, re-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  28. re: Wordnik
  29. re (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. re-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  4. Re: Legal dictionary
  5. RE: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. RE, re: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. RE: Netlingo
  3. re: CCI Computer
  4. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Re (Egyptian religion), Re: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. R.E, Re-: MedFriendly Glossary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. Re (Egyptian religion), Re, re-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. re, re, re: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. RE-, RE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. re: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Re: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. RE: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  5. Re, re: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  6. Re: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. re: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. re, re [12]: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See reing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
noun:  (in company names) Reinsurance.
noun:  A municipality of Vestfold, Norway
noun:  (rail transport) The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.
noun:  (video games, slang) Clipping of rematch. [A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.]
noun:  (marketing, branding) Clipping of reinsurance. (used in the branding of reinsurance company names) [(business, insurance) Insurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized.]
noun:  (Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Ra [(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian god of the Sun.]
noun:  Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.
noun:  (classics) Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
noun:  (computing theory) Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time
noun:  Abbreviation of religious education. [The teaching of a particular religion, and its doctrines, beliefs etc.]
noun:  Abbreviation of rare earth. [(chemistry) Any of the naturally occurring oxides of the lanthanide metals; they are widely distributed in relatively small concentrations and are used in glassmaking, ceramic glazes etc.]
noun:  (biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of response element.
noun:  Abbreviation of real estate. [(US, Canada, Australia) Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on.]
noun:  Abbreviation of renewable energy. [Energy that is collected from renewable resources, such as wind, water, or the sun, usually and especially as applied to a category of electrical generation.]

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