Usually means: Unit of language with meaning.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. word, the Word, the word: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. -word, word, word, the Word: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. word: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. -word, word, the word: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Word, word: Vocabulary.com
  6. Word, word, the word: Wordnik
  7. word: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Word, word: Wiktionary
  9. word: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. word: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. word: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. word, the word: Dictionary.com
  13. word: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. -word, word: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Word (TV miniseries), The Word (TV series), The Word (band), The Word (disambiguation), The Word (free love), The Word (magazine), The Word (novel), The Word (radio programme), The Word (song), The Word, The word, WORD (AM), Word (Microsoft), Word (computer architecture), Word (computer science), Word (computing), Word (data type), Word (disambiguation), Word (group theory), Word (journal), Word (linguistics), Word (mathematics), Word (unit), Word: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Word: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. word: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. word: Rhymezone
  19. word: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. word: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Word, Word: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. word, the word: Free Dictionary
  23. word: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Word, word: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. The word, word: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. word: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Word: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Word: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. Word (linguistics), word: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Word, word: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. word: Netlingo
  3. Word, word: CCI Computer
  4. Word, Word: Game Dictionary
  5. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  6. Webopedia (No longer online)
  7. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  8. Word (computing), Word (linguistics), Word (software), word: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. WORD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. word: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Word: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. -word, word, word: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. word, word, word: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Word, Word, Word, Word, word: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The smallest unit of language that has a particular meaning and can be expressed by itself; the smallest discrete, meaningful unit of language. (contrast morpheme.)
noun:  The smallest discrete unit of spoken language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more phonemes and one or more morphemes
noun:  The smallest discrete unit of written language with a particular meaning, composed of one or more letters or symbols and one or more morphemes
noun:  A discrete, meaningful unit of language approved by an authority or native speaker (compare non-word).
noun:  Something like such a unit of language:
noun:  A sequence of letters, characters, or sounds, considered as a discrete entity, though it does not necessarily belong to a language or have a meaning.
noun:  (telegraphy) A unit of text equivalent to five characters and one space.
noun:  (computing) A fixed-size group of bits handled as a unit by a machine and which can be stored in or retrieved from a typical register (so that it has the same size as such a register).
noun:  (computer science) A finite string that is not a command or operator.
noun:  (group theory) A group element, expressed as a product of group elements.
noun:  The fact or act of speaking, as opposed to taking action. .
noun:  (now rare outside certain phrases) Something that someone said; a comment, utterance; speech.
noun:  (obsolete outside certain phrases) A watchword or rallying cry, a verbal signal (even when consisting of multiple words).
noun:  (obsolete) A proverb or motto.
noun:  (uncountable) News; tidings.
noun:  An order; a request or instruction; an expression of will.
noun:  A promise; an oath or guarantee.
noun:  A brief discussion or conversation.
noun:  (meiosis) A minor reprimand.
noun:  (in the plural) See words.
noun:  (theology, sometimes Word) Communication from God; the message of the Christian gospel; the Bible, Scripture.
noun:  (theology, sometimes Word) Logos, Christ.
verb:  (transitive) To say or write (something) using particular words; to phrase (something).
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To flatter with words, to cajole.
verb:  (transitive) To ply or overpower with words.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To conjure with a word.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To speak, to use words; to converse, to discourse.
noun:  Scripture; the Bible.
noun:  The creative word of God; Logos.
noun:  (software) Microsoft Word, word processor software developed by Microsoft.
verb:  Alternative form of worth (“to become”). [(obsolete, except in set phrases or dialectal) To be, become, betide.]

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