Usually means: Not married or in relationship.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word single:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. single: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. single: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. single: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. single: Collins English Dictionary
  5. single: Vocabulary.com
  6. Single: Wordnik
  7. single: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. single: Dictionary.com
  9. single (adj.), single (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. single: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Single (Natasha Bedingfield song), Single (William Wei song), Single (baseball), Single (cricket), Single (football), Single (locomotive), Single (music), Single (relationship), Single: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Single: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. single: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. single: Rhymezone
  15. Single (f), single, single, single (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. single: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. single: Free Dictionary
  18. single, single: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. single: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. single: Dictionary/thesaurus
  21. single: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. single (ticket): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  23. single: Wiktionary
  24. single: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  25. single: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  26. Single, single, single: Wordnik
  27. single: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. MSN Money (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Single: Investopedia
  6. Single (disambiguation), single: Legal dictionary
  7. Single (disambiguation), Single: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Single (disambiguation), single: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SINGLE: Acronym Finder
  2. single: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SINGLE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. single, single, single: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Single: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. Single: A Seattle Lexicon

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Single: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Single: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See singled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
adjective:  Not divided in parts.
adjective:  Designed for the use of only one.
adjective:  Performed by one person, or one on each side.
adjective:  Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
adjective:  (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
adjective:  (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
adjective:  Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
noun:  (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
noun:  (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
noun:  One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
noun:  (cricket) A score of one run.
noun:  (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
noun:  (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
noun:  (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
noun:  (UK) A one-way ticket.
noun:  (Canadian football) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.
noun:  (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
noun:  One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
noun:  (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
noun:  (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
noun:  (film) A shot of only one character.
noun:  A single cigarette.
noun:  (rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.
verb:  (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
verb:  (agriculture) To thin out.
verb:  (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.
noun:  A surname from Old English.

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