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We found 36 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word encounter: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "encounter" is defined. General (30 matching dictionaries) encounter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] encounter: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Vocabulary.com [home, info] encounter, encounter: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Encounter, encounter: Wordnik [home, info] encounter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Wiktionary [home, info] encounter: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] encounter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] encounter: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Encounter, encounter: Dictionary.com [home, info] encounter: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] encounter: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Encounter (Christian event), Encounter (Hercules episode), Encounter (Psychology), Encounter (album), Encounter (computer game), Encounter (magazine), Encounter (urban street game), Encounter, The Encounter (Animorphs), The Encounter (The Twilight Zone), The Encounter (disambiguation), The Encounter (short story), The Encounter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Encounter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] encounter: Rhymezone [home, info] encounter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Free Dictionary [home, info] encounter: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] encounter: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] encounter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] encounter: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] encounter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info] Business (1 matching dictionary) encounter: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (1 matching dictionary) encounter: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (2 matching dictionaries) encounter: online medical dictionary [home, info] encounter: Medical dictionary [home, info] Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary) ENCOUNTER: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info] Science (1 matching dictionary) Encounter: Extragalactic Astronomy [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (encounter) ▸ noun:  a casual meeting with a person of thing ▸ noun:  a hostile disagreement face-to-face ▸ noun:  a casual or unexpected convergence ("There was a brief encounter in the hallway") ▸ noun:  a minor short-term fight ▸ verb:  be beset by ▸ verb:  experience as a reaction ▸ verb:  contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle ▸ verb:  come together ▸ verb:  come upon, as if by accident; meet with ▸ Word origin