Usually means: Biological classification of male, female.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word sex:

General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. sex: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sex, sex-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sex, sex-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sex, sex-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sex: Vocabulary.com
  6. sex: Wordnik
  7. sex, sex-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. sex, sex-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. sex: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. SEX, The sex, sex-: Dictionary.com
  11. sex (n.), sex (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. sex: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. S.E.X, S.E.X. (Lyfe Jennings song), S.E.X. (Madonna song), SEX (boutique), SEX (computing), SEX, Sex-, Sex (I'm A...), Sex (Madonna), Sex (TV series), Sex (Telex album), Sex (The Necks album), Sex (Tila Tequila EP), Sex (activity), Sex (book), Sex (boutique), Sex (disambiguation), Sex (feat. New Boyz), Sex (film), Sex (play), Sex, .sex: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Sex-, Sex: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. sex, sex-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. sex: Rhymezone
  17. Sex-, Sex (m), sex: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. sex: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Sex ('getting laid'): American-Britih Dictionary
  20. sex, sex-: MyWord.info
  21. SEX, Sex, Sex: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Sex: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. sex, sex-, the sex: Free Dictionary
  24. sex: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sex: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. The sex, sex, sex-: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. sex: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  28. sex, sex-: Wiktionary
  29. sex-, the sex: Wordnik
  30. sex: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sex: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)
  3. sex-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Sex (biological division), Sex: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SEX: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. SEX: Netlingo
  3. Sex (activity), Sex (biological division), sex, sex-: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Terms in the field of Psychiatry and Neurology (No longer online)
  5. Sex (activity), Sex (biological division), sex, sex-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. SEX: Acronym Finder
  4. SEX: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. sex: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sex: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. SEX: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sex, sex: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. S.E.X, sex, sex, sex, the 'sex: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sexed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) A category into which sexually-reproducing organisms are divided on the basis of their reproductive roles in their species.
noun:  (countable) Another category, especially of humans and especially based on sexuality or gender roles.
noun:  (countable) The members of such a category, taken collectively.
noun:  (uncountable) The distinction and relation between these categories, especially in humans; gender.
noun:  (obsolete or literary, uncountable, with "the") Women; the human female gender and those who belong to it.
noun:  (uncountable) Sexual activity, usually sexual intercourse unless preceded by a modifier.
noun:  (countable, euphemistic or slang) Genitalia: a penis or vagina.
verb:  (zoology, transitive) To determine the sex of (an animal).
verb:  (chiefly US, colloquial, transitive) To have sex with.
verb:  (chiefly US, colloquial, intransitive) To have sex.
noun:  (obsolete) Alternative form of sect. [An offshoot of a larger religion or denomination.]

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