We found 30 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word encounter:
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 General (24 matching dictionaries)
- encounter: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
- encounter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
- encounter: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
- encounter: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
- encounter: Wiktionary [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 (Psychology), Encounter (album), Encounter (magazine), Encounter (urban street game), Encounter, The Encounter (Animorphs), The Encounter (The Twilight Zone), 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]
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 (2 matching dictionaries)
- Encounter: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]
- Encounter: Extragalactic Astronomy [home, info]
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Quick definitions (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
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