Usually means: Rules governing arrangement of words.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. syntax: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. syntax: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. syntax: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. syntax: Collins English Dictionary
  5. syntax: Vocabulary.com
  6. Syntax, syntax: Wordnik
  7. syntax: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. syntax: Wiktionary
  9. syntax: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. syntax: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. syntax: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. syntax: Dictionary.com
  13. syntax: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. syntax: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SYNTAX, Syntax (band), Syntax (disambiguation), Syntax (journal), Syntax (linguistics), Syntax (logic), Syntax (programming languages), Syntax (typeface), Syntax: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Syntax: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. syntax: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. syntax: Rhymezone
  19. Syntax (f), syntax: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. syntax: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. syntax: Free Dictionary
  22. syntax: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. syntax: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. syntax: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. Syntax: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  4. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)
  5. SYNTAX: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. syntax: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. syntax: Netlingo
  3. syntax: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Syntax: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)
  6. syntax: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. syntax: Medical dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. syntax: Evolution Glossary
  2. syntax: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. syntax: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A set of rules that govern how words are combined to form phrases and sentences.
noun:  (computing, countable) The formal rules of formulating the statements of a computer language.
noun:  (linguistics) The study of the structure of phrases, sentences, and language.

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