Usually means: Narrow waterway connecting two bodies.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. strait: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. strait: Merriam-Webster
  3. strait: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. strait: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. strait: Collins English Dictionary
  6. strait: Vocabulary.com
  7. Strait, strait: Wordnik
  8. strait: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Strait, strait: Wiktionary
  10. strait: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. strait: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. strait: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. strait: Dictionary.com
  14. strait (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. strait: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Strait: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Strait: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. strait: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. strait: Rhymezone
  20. Strait: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. strait: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. strait: FreeDictionary.org
  23. strait: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. strait: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. strait: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. strait: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. strait: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. strait: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Strait: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. strait: Medical dictionary
  5. Strait: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. strait: Idioms

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

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strait: Urban Dictionary
  2. The Strait: A Seattle Lexicon

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See straitly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (archaic) Narrow; restricted as to space or room; close.
adjective:  (archaic) Righteous, strict.
adjective:  (obsolete) Tight; close; tight-fitting.
adjective:  (obsolete) Close; intimate; near; familiar.
adjective:  (obsolete) Difficult; distressful.
adjective:  (obsolete) Parsimonious; stingy; mean.
noun:  (geography) A narrow channel of water connecting two larger bodies of water.
noun:  A narrow pass, passage or street.
noun:  A neck of land; an isthmus.
noun:  (often in the plural) A difficult position.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To confine; put to difficulties.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To tighten.
adverb:  (obsolete) Strictly; rigorously.
noun:  A surname.
adjective:  Obsolete spelling of straight. [Not crooked, curly, or bent; having a constant direction throughout its length.]

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