Usually means: Long, narrow strip of fabric.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. ribbon: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ribbon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ribbon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ribbon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ribbon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ribbon, ribbon: Wordnik
  7. ribbon: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ribbon: Wiktionary
  9. ribbon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ribbon: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ribbon: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ribbon, ribbon: Dictionary.com
  13. ribbon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ribbon: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ribbon (band), Ribbon (computing), Ribbon (disambiguation), Ribbon (film), Ribbon (mathematics), Ribbon (rhythmic gymnastics), Ribbon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Ribbon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. ribbon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. ribbon: Rhymezone
  19. ribbon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. ribbon: Free Dictionary
  21. ribbon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ribbon: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. ribbon: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ribbon: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ribbon: Idioms

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

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ribbon: Bicycle Glossary
  2. Ribbon: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Culinary Cafe (No longer online)
  2. Ribbon (girt): Construction Glossary

(Note: See ribboned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A long, narrow strip of material used for decoration of clothing or the hair or gift wrapping.
noun:  An awareness ribbon.
noun:  An inked strip of material against which type is pressed to print letters in a typewriter or printer.
noun:  A narrow strip or shred.
noun:  (cooking) In ice cream and similar confections, an ingredient (often chocolate, butterscotch, caramel, or fudge) added in a long narrow strip.
noun:  (nautical) A painted moulding on the side of a ship.
noun:  A watchspring.
noun:  A bandsaw.
noun:  (slang, dated, in the plural) Reins for a horse.
noun:  (heraldry) A bearing similar to the bend, but only one eighth as wide.
noun:  (spinning) A sliver.
noun:  (journalism) A subheadline presented above its parent headline.
noun:  (computing, graphical user interface) A toolbar that incorporates tabs and menus.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate with ribbon.
verb:  (transitive) To stripe or streak.
noun:  (shipbuilding) Alternative form of ribband [(shipbuilding) A long, narrow strip of timber bent and bolted longitudinally to the ribs of a vessel, to hold them in position and give rigidity to the framework.]

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