Usually means: Path made for walking, hiking.
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We found 52 dictionaries that define the word trail:

General (34 matching dictionaries)
  1. trail: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. trail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. trail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. trail: Collins English Dictionary
  5. trail: Vocabulary.com
  6. Trail, trail, the-trail: Wordnik
  7. trail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Trail, trail: Wiktionary
  9. trail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. trail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. trail: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. trail: Dictionary.com
  13. trail (n.), trail (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. trail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. TRAIL, Trail (disambiguation), Trail (graph theory), Trail (horse show), Trail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Trail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. trail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. trail: Rhymezone
  19. trail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. trail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. TRAIL: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Trail: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. trail: Free Dictionary
  24. trail: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Trail, trail: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  26. trail: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. trail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. trail: Legal dictionary
  3. trail: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. trail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. TRAIL: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  3. trail: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. TRAIL: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. trail: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Trail: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. TRAIL: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  3. trail: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. trail, trail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. trail, the trail: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Trail: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See trailed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
verb:  (transitive) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
verb:  (transitive) To leave (a trail of).
verb:  (transitive) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
verb:  (intransitive) To hang or drag loosely behind; to move with a slow sweeping motion.
verb:  (intransitive) To run or climb like certain plants.
verb:  (intransitive) To drag oneself lazily or reluctantly along.
verb:  To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
verb:  (military) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
verb:  To create a trail in.
verb:  To travel by following or creating trails.
verb:  To transport (livestock) by herding it along a trail.
verb:  (dated) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
noun:  The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
noun:  A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
noun:  A route or circuit generally.
noun:  (television) A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
noun:  (graph theory) A walk in which all the edges are distinct.
noun:  The horizontal distance from where the wheel touches the ground to where the steering axis intersects the ground.
noun:  A city in British Columbia, Canada.
noun:  A city in Polk County, Minnesota, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Jackson County, Oregon, United States.

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