We found 43 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word defense:
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 General (25 matching dictionaries)
- defense: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- defense: Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
- defense: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- DEFENSE, Defense, defense: Wordnik [home, info]
- defense: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- Defense: Wiktionary [home, info]
- defense: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
- defense: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
- defense: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Dictionary.com [home, info]
- defense: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
- Defense, defense: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
- Defense (American football), Defense (athletic), Defense (first-person shooter term), Defense (justification), Defense (law), Defense (legal), Defense (military), Defense (poker), Defense (policy debate), Defense (sport), Defense, The Defense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
- Defense: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
- defense: Rhymezone [home, info]
- defense: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Free Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
- Defense, defense: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
- defense: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
Art (1 matching dictionary)
- defense: Literary Criticism [home, info]
Business (5 matching dictionaries)
- defense: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
- Defense: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
- Defense (legal), defense, the defense: Legal dictionary [home, info]
Computing (1 matching dictionary)
- defense: Encyclopedia [home, info]
Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
- defense: Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: online medical dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Medical dictionary [home, info]
Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
- DEFENSE: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
- defense: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
- Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense: Encyclopedia of the Orient [home, info]
- defense: Idioms [home, info]
Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
- Defense: Chess Dictionary [home, info]
- Defense, defense: Sports Terms [home, info]
- Defense, defense: Sports Definitions [home, info]
Tech (1 matching dictionary)
- Defense: Dictionary of Military Architecture [home, info]
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Quick definitions (defense)
▸ noun: protection from harm ("Sanitation is the best defense against disease")
▸ noun: military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies ("They died in the defense of Stalingrad")
▸ noun: a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him ("He gave evidence for the defense")
▸ noun: the justification for some act or belief ("He offered a persuasive defense of the theory")
▸ noun: an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack ("He joined the defense against invasion")
▸ noun: the defendant and his legal advisors collectively ("The defense called for a mistrial")
▸ noun: (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring ("His teams are always good on defense")
▸ noun: a structure used for defense ("The artillery battered down the defenses")
▸ noun: the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions ("In defense he said the other man started it")
▸ noun: the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947
▸ noun: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires
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