Usually means: Lymphoid tissue, throat, immune response.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word TONSIL:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. tonsil: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tonsil: Merriam-Webster
  3. tonsil: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tonsil: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tonsil: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tonsil: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tonsil, tonsil: Wordnik
  8. tonsil: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tonsil (pharyngeal): InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. tonsil: Wiktionary
  11. tonsil: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. tonsil: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. tonsil: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. tonsil: Dictionary.com
  15. tonsil: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. Tonsil: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tonsil: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tonsil: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tonsil: Rhymezone
  20. Tonsil: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tonsil: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tonsil: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tonsil: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tonsil: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tonsil: Encyclopedia

Medicine (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. tonsil: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  6. tonsil: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. tonsil: Medical dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tonsil: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Tonsil: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tonsillar as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tonsil)

noun:  (anatomy, immunology) Any of various small masses of lymphoid tissues.
noun:  (anatomy, immunology) Ellipsis of palatine tonsil. [(anatomy) One of the two tonsils that can be seen on the left and right sides at the back of the throat.]

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