Usually means: Ability acquired through practice, knowledge.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word skill:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. skill: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. skill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skill: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skill: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skill: Vocabulary.com
  6. Skill, skill: Wordnik
  7. skill: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. skill: Wiktionary
  9. skill: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. skill: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. skill: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. skill: Dictionary.com
  13. skill: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. skill: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SKILL, Skill (labor), Skill (role-playing), Skill (role-playing games), Skill, The Skill: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Skill: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. skill: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. skill: Rhymezone
  19. skill: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. skill: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. skill: Free Dictionary
  22. skill: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. skill: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. skill: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Skill: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. skill: Glossary of research economics
  4. Skill: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. skill: Legal dictionary
  7. Skill: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Skill: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Skill: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Skill: Glossary of Medical Education Terms
  3. skill: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SKILL: Acronym Finder
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. skill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. the Skill: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

(Note: See skill-less as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Capacity to do something well; technique, ability. Skills are usually acquired or learned, as opposed to abilities, which are often thought of as innate.
noun:  (obsolete) Discrimination; judgment; propriety; reason; cause.
noun:  (obsolete) Knowledge; understanding.
noun:  (obsolete) Display of art; exercise of ability; contrivance; address.
adjective:  (UK, slang) Great, excellent.
verb:  (transitive) To set apart; separate.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly dialectal) To discern; have knowledge or understanding; to know how (to).
verb:  (transitive, dialectal, Scotland, Northern England, rare) To know; to understand.
verb:  (intransitive) To have knowledge or comprehension; discern.
verb:  (intransitive) To have personal or practical knowledge; be versed or practised; be expert or dextrous.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To make a difference; signify; matter.
verb:  (video games) To spend acquired points in exchange for skills.

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