Usually means: Joint connecting arm to torso.
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We found 56 dictionaries that define the word shoulder:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoulder: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shoulder: Merriam-Webster
  3. shoulder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shoulder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shoulder: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shoulder: Vocabulary.com
  7. Shoulder, shoulder: Wordnik
  8. shoulder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Shoulder, Shoulder, Shoulder, Shoulder, Shoulder, Shoulder, Shoulder, Shoulder, Shoulder: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. shoulder: Wiktionary
  11. shoulder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. shoulder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. shoulder: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. shoulder: Dictionary.com
  15. shoulder: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. shoulder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Shoulder (disambiguation), Shoulder (highway), Shoulder (road), Shoulder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Shoulder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. shoulder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. shoulder: Rhymezone
  21. shoulder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. shoulder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. shoulder: MyWord.info
  24. Shoulder: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. shoulder: FreeDictionary.org
  26. shoulder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. shoulder: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. shoulder: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. shoulder: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shoulder (road), shoulder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. shoulder: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Shoulder: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Shoulder: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. shoulder: Medical dictionary
  7. Shoulder: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shoulder: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Shoulder: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Bryological (No longer online)
  4. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shoulder: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)
  4. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)

(Note: See shouldered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The part of an animal's body between the base of the neck and forearm socket.
noun:  The part of the human torso forming a relatively horizontal surface running away from the neck.
noun:  (anatomy) The joint between the arm and the torso, sometimes including the surrounding muscles, tendons, and ligaments.
noun:  A cut of meat comprising the upper joint of the foreleg and the surrounding muscle.
noun:  The portion of a garment where the shoulder is clothed.
noun:  Anything forming a shape resembling a human shoulder.
noun:  (topography) A shelf between two levels.
noun:  A usually unsealed strip of land bordering a road, where vehicles can drive or park in an emergency.
noun:  The portion of a hill or mountain just below the peak.
noun:  A lateral protrusion of a hill or mountain.
noun:  The angle of a bastion included between the face and flank.
noun:  An abrupt projection which forms an abutment on an object, or limits motion, etc., such as the projection around a tenon at the end of a piece of timber.
noun:  (printing) The flat portion of type that is below the bevelled portion that joins up with the face.
noun:  (of an object) The portion between the neck and the body.
noun:  (music) The rounded portion of a stringed instrument where the neck joins the body.
noun:  The rounded portion of a bottle where the neck meets the body.
noun:  (firearms) The angled section between the neck and the main body of a cartridge.
noun:  (figurative) That which supports or sustains; support.
noun:  The part of a key between the cuts and the bow.
noun:  (surfing) The part of a wave that has not yet broken.
noun:  (aviation) A season or a time of day when there is relatively little air traffic.
verb:  (transitive) To push (a person or thing) using one's shoulder.
verb:  (transitive, by extension) To bully, manipulate or pull rank on (somebody).
verb:  (transitive) To put (something) on one's shoulders.
verb:  (transitive) To place (something) against one's shoulders.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To bear a burden, as a financial obligation.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To accept responsibility for.
verb:  (transitive) To form a shape resembling a shoulder.
verb:  (intransitive) To move by or as if by using one's shoulders.
verb:  (transitive) To round and slightly raise the top edges of slate shingles so that they form a tighter fit at the lower edge and can be swung aside to expose the nail.
verb:  (intransitive) To slope downwards from the crest and whitewater portion of a wave.
verb:  (transitive, archaic, slang) Of a servant: to embezzle money from (the employer).

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