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General dictionaries General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. general: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. general: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. general: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. general: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. General: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. general: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. general: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. general: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. general: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. general (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. General, general: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. general: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. General(Australia), General (Australia), General (DC Comics), General (Freeware game), General (G.I. Joe), General (Germany), General (Mega Man X4), General (Switzerland), General (UK), General (United Kingdom), General (United States), General (comics), General (disambiguation), General (number), General, The General (Song), The General (TV Series), The General (The Prisoner), The General (TimeSplitters), The General (film), The General (locomotive), The General (magazine), The General (novel), The General: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. General: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. general: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. general: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. General (m), general, general: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. general: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. General: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  20. general: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  21. general: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  22. general: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  23. general: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  24. general: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. GENERAL: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]
  2. general: The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. General: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
  2. GENERAL: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
  3. general: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. general: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. general: online medical dictionary [home, info]
  2. GENERAL: Lay Terms for Consent Forms [home, info]
  3. General: Hepatitis C Information Central [home, info]
  4. GENERAL, General: Specific Diseases/Disorders [home, info]
  5. General (disambiguation), general: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. General: Unofficial Dictionary for Marines [home, info]
  2. general: Idioms [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. General: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Quick definitions (general)

noun:  a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular) ("He discussed the general but neglected the particular")
noun:  a general officer of the highest rank
noun:  the head of a religious order or congregation
verb:  command as a general ("We are generaled by an incompetent!")
adjective:  affecting the entire body ("A general anesthetic")
adjective:  somewhat indefinite ("Bearing a general resemblance to the original")
adjective:  prevailing among and common to the general public ("The general discontent")
adjective:  not specialized or limited to one class of things ("General studies")
adjective:  applying to all or most members of a category or group ("The general public")
adjective:  of national scope ("A general election")
adjective:  of worldwide scope or applicability
name:  A surname (very rare: popularity rank in the U.S.: #43702)

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Words similar to general:   cosmopolitan, ecumenical, oecumenical, universal, worldwide, full general, unspecific, more...


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