Usually means: Past tense of the verb "be".
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word was:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. was: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Was, was: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. was: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. was: Collins English Dictionary
  5. was: Vocabulary.com
  6. WA's, Was, wa's, was, was, was, was, was, was: Wordnik
  7. was: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. was: Wiktionary
  9. was: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. was: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. was: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. WAS: Dictionary.com
  13. was: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. was: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. WAS, Was (Not Was), Was (Not Was) (album), Was (horse), Was (novel), Was (sceptre), Was: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Was: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. was: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Was, Was, Was, was (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. was: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. WAS: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. was: Free Dictionary
  22. was: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. was: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. was: Legal dictionary
  2. was: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. WAS (disambiguation), WAS: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. was: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. WAS: Acronym Finder
  3. WAS: Three Letter Words with definitions
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. was: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. W.A.S, was, the was: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
noun:  A surname.

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