Usually means: Protection against physical or metaphorical attacks.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word shield:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shield: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shield: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shield: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shield, the shield: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shield: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shield, shield: Wordnik
  7. shield: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Shield, Shield: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Shield, shield: Wiktionary
  10. shield: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. shield: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. shield: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. shield: Dictionary.com
  14. shield: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. shield: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. S.H.I.E.L.D, S.H.I.E.L.D. (TV series), S.H.I.E.L.D. (comic book), S.H.I.E.L.D. (disambiguation), SHIELD (comics), SHIELD, Shield (Archie Comics), Shield (Geology), Shield (comics), Shield (disambiguation), Shield (geology), Shield (heraldry), Shield (song), Shield, The Shield (Archie), The Shield (Archie Comics), The Shield (TV series), The Shield (drama series), The Shield (episodes), The Shield (professional wrestling), The Shield (video game), The Shield (wrestling), The Shield, The shield: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Shield: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. shield: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. shield: Rhymezone
  20. shield: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. shield: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Shield: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. shield: Free Dictionary
  24. shield: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. shield: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shield (disambiguation), shield: Legal dictionary
  2. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shield (disambiguation), Shield (electronics), Shield (geology), Shield (heraldry), shield: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Shield (heraldry), shield: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. SHIELD: Acronym Finder

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shield: Easton Bible
  2. Shield: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)

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

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. shield: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. shield: Electronics
  3. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  6. shield: Coin Collecting
  7. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  8. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  9. Urban Conservation Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See shielded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
noun:  A broad piece of defensive armor, held in hand, formerly in general use in war, for the protection of the body.
noun:  (figurative) One who protects or defends.
noun:  (lichenology) In lichens, a hardened cup or disk surrounded by a rim and containing the fructification, or asci.
noun:  (mining, tunnelling) A framework used to protect workmen in making an adit under ground, and capable of being pushed along as excavation progresses.
noun:  (science fiction) A field of energy that protects or defends.
noun:  A shape like that of a shield; usually, an inverted triangle with sides that curve inward to form a pointed bottom, commonly used for police identifications and company logos.
noun:  (heraldry) The escutcheon on which are placed the bearings in coats of arms.
noun:  (Scotland, euphemistic, obsolete) A toilet seat.
noun:  A spot resembling, or having the form of a shield.
noun:  (obsolete) A coin, the old French crown, or écu, having on one side the figure of a shield.
noun:  (transport) A sign or symbol, usually containing numbers and sometimes letters, identifying a highway route.
noun:  (colloquial, law enforcement) A police badge.
noun:  (geology) A large expanse of exposed stable Precambrian rock.
noun:  (geology) A wide and relatively low-profiled volcano, usually composed entirely of lava flows.
noun:  (figuratively, Scotland, euphemistic, obsolete) A place with a toilet seat: an outhouse; a lavatory.
noun:  (automotive, British English) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To protect, to defend.
verb:  (UK, intransitive) To shelter; to protect oneself.
verb:  (electricity) To protect from the influence of.
noun:  A surname.

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