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General dictionaries General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. koan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. koan: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  3. koan: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  4. koan: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  5. Koan, koan: Wordnik [home, info]
  6. koan: Wiktionary [home, info]
  7. koan: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  8. koan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  9. koan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  10. koan: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  11. koan: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  12. koan: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  13. KOAN (AM), Ko'an, Koan (Kamakura period), Koan (Muromachi period), Koan (Sailor Moon), Koan (disambiguation), Koan (era), Koan (first), Koan (program), Koan (second), Koan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. koan: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. koan: Hutchinson's Dictionary of Difficult Words [home, info]
  16. koan: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  17. koan: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  18. koan: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  19. koan: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. koan: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  21. koan: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  22. koan: Worthless Word For The Day [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. koan: Netlingo [home, info]
  2. koan: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. KOAN: Acronym Finder [home, info]

Religion dictionaries Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. KOAN: Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. koan: Urban Dictionary [home, info]


Quick definitions from WordNet (koan)

noun:  a paradoxical annecdote or a riddle that has no solution; used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning

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