Usually means: Soft, quiet speech or sound.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. whisper: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. whisper: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. whisper: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. whisper: Collins English Dictionary
  5. whisper: Vocabulary.com
  6. Whisper, whisper: Wordnik
  7. whisper: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. whisper: Wiktionary
  9. whisper: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. whisper: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. whisper: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. whisper: Dictionary.com
  13. whisper (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. whisper: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Whisper, Whisper (EP), Whisper (TV series), Whisper (Transformers), Whisper (app), Whisper (cartridge family), Whisper (disambiguation), Whisper (film), Whisper (song), Whisper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Whisper: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. whisper: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. whisper: Rhymezone
  19. whisper: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. whisper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. whisper: Free Dictionary
  22. whisper: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. whisper: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whisper: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. whisper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. whisper: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. WHISPER: Acronym Finder
  2. whisper: Idioms

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The act of speaking in a quiet voice, especially, without vibration of the vocal cords.
noun:  (usually in the plural) A rumor.
noun:  (figurative) A faint trace or hint (of something).
noun:  A low rustling sound, like that of the wind in leaves.
noun:  (Internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak softly, or under the breath, so as to be heard only by one near at hand; to utter words without sonant breath; to talk without that vibration in the larynx which gives sonorous, or vocal, sound.
verb:  (transitive) To mention privately and confidentially, or in a whisper.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a low, sibilant sound.
verb:  (intransitive) To speak with suspicion or timorous caution; to converse in whispers, as in secret plotting.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To address in a whisper, or low voice.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To prompt secretly or cautiously; to inform privately.
verb:  (Internet) To send a private message to an individual in a chat room.

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