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We found 33 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word contain: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "contain" is defined. General (27 matching dictionaries) contain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] contain: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] contain: Vocabulary.com [home, info] contain: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] contain: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Contain, contain: Wordnik [home, info] contain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] contain: Wiktionary [home, info] contain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] contain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] contain: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Contain, contain: Dictionary.com [home, info] contain: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] contain: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] contain: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Contain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] contain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] contain: Rhymezone [home, info] contain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] contain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] contain: Free Dictionary [home, info] contain: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] contain: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] contain: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] contain: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (1 matching dictionary) Contain: Lexicon of Linguistics [home, info] Business (1 matching dictionary) contain: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) contain: Encyclopedia [home, info] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) contain: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info] Slang (1 matching dictionary) contain: Urban Dictionary [home, info] Tech (1 matching dictionary) contain: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (contain) ▸ verb:  be capable of holding or containing ▸ verb:  be divisible by ("24 contains 6") ▸ verb:  include or contain; have as a component ("The record contains many old songs from the 1930's") ▸ verb:  lessen the intensity of; temper; hold in restraint; hold or keep within limits ▸ verb:  contain or hold; have within ("This can contains water") ▸ verb:  hold back, as of a danger or an enemy; check the expansion or influence of ("Contain the rebel movement") ▸ Word origin