Usually means: Unexpected event causing emotional reaction.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. Surprise, surprise: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. surprise, surprise: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. surprise: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. surprise: Collins English Dictionary
  5. surprise: Vocabulary.com
  6. Surprise, surprise: Wordnik
  7. surprise: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. surprise: Wiktionary
  9. surprise: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. surprise: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. surprise: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. surprise: Dictionary.com
  13. surprise (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. surprise: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Surprise (Better Than Ezra album), Surprise (Buffy episode), Surprise (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Surprise (Crystal Waters album), Surprise (Lynsey de Paul album), Surprise (Paul Simon album), Surprise (S.E.S. album), Surprise (Sylvia album), Surprise (apple), Surprise (clipper), Surprise (emotion), Surprise (film), Surprise (paddle steamer), Surprise (web series), Surprise, The Surprise (painting), The Surprise: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Surprise: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. surprise: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. surprise: Rhymezone
  19. surprise, surprise (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. surprise: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. surprise: Free Dictionary
  22. surprise: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. surprise: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Surprise: Literary Terms

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Surprise: bizterms.net
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. surprise: Legal dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Surprise: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. surprise: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Something unexpected.
noun:  A mess of feces, left by a pet or small child in an unexpected place or at an unexpected time.
noun:  The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.
verb:  (transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo or witness something unexpected.
verb:  (intransitive) To cause surprise.
verb:  (transitive) To attack unexpectedly.
verb:  (transitive) To take unawares.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Maricopa County, Arizona, the largest place with this name.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Indiana.
noun:  A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
noun:  A locality in Greene County, New York.
noun:  Former name of Surprise Station, California.

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