Usually means: Historical artifact significant to culture.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word relic:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. relic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. relic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. relic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. relic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. relic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Relic, relic: Wordnik
  7. relic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. relic: Wiktionary
  9. relic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. relic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. relic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Relic, relic: Dictionary.com
  13. relic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. relic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Relic (comics), Relic (disambiguation), Relic (novel), Relic, The Relic (film), The Relic (novel), The Relic (video game), The Relic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Relic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. relic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. relic: Rhymezone
  19. relic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. relic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. relic: Free Dictionary
  22. relic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. relic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. relic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relic: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. relic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. RELIC: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See relics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  That which remains; that which is left after loss or decay; a remaining portion.
noun:  Something old and outdated, possibly kept for sentimental reasons.
noun:  (religion) A part of the body of a saint, or an ancient religious object, kept for veneration.
noun:  (cosmology) A particle or entity that has existed since the Big Bang.
verb:  (transitive, uncommon, often of guitars) To cause (an object) to appear old or worn, to distress.
adjective:  (cosmology) Pertaining to the Big Bang.

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