Usually means: Arachnid with eight legs, silk.
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We found 75 dictionaries that define the word spider:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. spider: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. spider: Merriam-Webster
  3. spider: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. spider: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. spider: Collins English Dictionary
  6. spider: Vocabulary.com
  7. Spider, spider: Wordnik
  8. spider: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Spider, spider: Wiktionary
  10. spider: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spider: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spider: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spider: Dictionary.com
  14. spider: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. spider: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Spider (American band), Spider (Bourgeois), Spider (British band), Spider (DC Comics), Spider (TV series), Spider (animal), Spider (band), Spider (card game), Spider (disambiguation), Spider (drink), Spider (film), Spider (magazine), Spider (movie), Spider (nickname), Spider (novel), Spider (portal), Spider (pulp fiction), Spider (roller coaster), Spider (solitaire), Spider (utensil), Spider, Spider, The Spider (British comics), The Spider (comic), The Spider (comics), The Spider: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Spider: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. spider: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. spider: Rhymezone
  20. spider: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. spider: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. SPIDER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. SPIDER: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Spider: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. spider: FreeDictionary.org
  26. spider: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  27. spider: Mnemonic Dictionary
  28. spider: TheFreeDictionary.com
  29. spider: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. spider: Linda's Culinary Dictionary
  2. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  3. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  4. Spider: Dictionary of Symbolism
  5. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Spider: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Spider (animal), spider: Financial dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  6. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. spider: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. spider: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  3. spider: Netlingo
  4. spider: CCI Computer
  5. CNET Internet Glossary (No longer online)
  6. spider: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  7. Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
  8. Spider: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  9. Webopedia (No longer online)
  10. spider: Hacking Lexicon
  11. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  12. Spider (animal), spider: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spider: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Spider (animal), spider: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. SPIDER: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. spider: Idioms

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spider: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spider (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. spider: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Spider: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. The Spider: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spider: Bicycle Glossary
  2. Spider: Sports Definitions

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. Spider: Latitude Mexico
  5. Spider: Web Hosting Glossary

(Note: See spidering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of various eight-legged, predatory arthropods, of the order Araneae, most of which spin webs to catch prey.
noun:  (Internet) A program which follows links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
noun:  (chiefly Australia and New Zealand) A float (drink) made by mixing ice-cream and a soda or fizzy drink (such as lemonade).
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand, obsolete) An alcoholic drink made with brandy and lemonade or ginger beer.
noun:  (slang) A spindly person.
noun:  (slang) A man who persistently approaches or accosts a woman in a public social setting, particularly in a bar.
noun:  (snooker, billiards) A stick with a convex arch-shaped notched head used to support the cue when the cue ball is out of reach at normal extension.
noun:  (cooking, US, UK, chiefly historical and now dialectal) A cast-iron frying pan with three legs, once common in open-hearth cookery.
noun:  (cooking) Implement for moving food in and out of hot oil for deep frying, with a circular metal mesh attached to a long handle; a spider skimmer
noun:  (cycling) A part of a crank, to which the chainrings are attached.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Heroin.
noun:  (music) Part of a resonator instrument that transmits string vibrations from the bridge to a resonator cone at multiple points.
noun:  A skeleton or frame with radiating arms or members, often connected by crosspieces, such as a casting forming the hub and spokes to which the rim of a fly wheel or large gear is bolted; the body of a piston head; or a frame for strengthening a core or mould for a casting.
noun:  (fly fishing, England) A soft-hackle fly.
noun:  (sports) The network of wires separating the areas of a dartboard.
noun:  (mathematics) A spider graph or spider tree.
noun:  (obsolete) A type of light phaeton.
noun:  (photography) A support for a camera tripod, preventing it from sliding.
noun:  (bowls) A competition in which several participants are spread evenly around the edges of the green, who all make one bowl towards the central jack at the same time; the winner being the person whose bowl ends up closest to the jack.
verb:  (intransitive) To move like a spider.
verb:  (intransitive) To cover a surface like a cobweb.
verb:  (Internet, of a computer program) To follow links on the World Wide Web in order to gather information.
noun:  The 29th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

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