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We found 50 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word swell:
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 General (31 matching dictionaries)
- swell: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- swell: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
- swell, swell, swell: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- Swell, swell: Wordnik [home, info]
- swell: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
- Swell: Wiktionary [home, info]
- swell: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- swell: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- swell: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- swell (n.), swell (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Swell (band), Swell (bookbinding), Swell (ocean), Swell, The Swell: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- swell: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
- Swell: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- swell: Rhymezone [home, info]
- swell: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- swell: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- swell: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Art (2 matching dictionaries)
- Swell: Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary [home, info]
- swell: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]
Business (1 matching dictionary)
- swell: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- swell: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
- swell: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- swell: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
- SWELL: Acronym Finder [home, info]
- swell: Idioms [home, info]
Science (2 matching dictionaries)
- swell: Botanical Terms [home, info]
- SWELL: Weather Glossary [home, info]
Slang (1 matching dictionary)
- S.Well: Urban Dictionary [home, info]
Sports (1 matching dictionary)
- Swell: Sports Definitions [home, info]
Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
- swell: Book Binding [home, info]
- swell: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]
- swell: Glossary of Meteorology [home, info]
- SWELL: Lake and Water Word Glossary [home, info]
- Swell: National Weather Service Glossary [home, info]
- swell: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
- Swell: Latitude Mexico [home, info]
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Quick definitions from Macmillan ()
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Quick definitions from WordNet (swell)
▸ noun: a crescendo followed by a decrescendo
▸ noun: the undulating movement of the surface of the open sea
▸ noun: a rounded elevation (especially one on an ocean floor)
▸ noun: a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
▸ verb: expand abnormally ( "The bellies of the starving children are swelling")
▸ verb: cause to become swollen ( "The water swells the wood")
▸ verb: become filled with pride, arrogance, or anger ( "The mother was swelling with importance when she spoke of her son")
▸ verb: increase in size, magnitude, number, or intensity ( "The music swelled to a crescendo")
▸ verb: as of feelings and thoughts, or other ephemeral things ( "Smoke swelled from it")
▸ verb: come up
▸ adjective: very good
▸ name: A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #67353)
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