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We found 28 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word motley:
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General dictionaries General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. motley: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. motley: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. motley: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. motley: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. motley: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. motley: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. motley: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. motley: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. Motley, motley: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. motley: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. Motley, motley: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. motley: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. Motley (disambiguation), Motley: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  14. Motley: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  15. motley: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  16. motley: Rhymezone [home, info]
  17. Motley: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  18. motley: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  19. Motley: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  20. Motley: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  21. motley: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. Motley: Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
  23. motley: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  24. motley: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  25. Motley, motley: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  26. motley: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MOTLEY: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]

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

Quick definitions (motley)

noun:  a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads in 14th to 17th century England
noun:  a garment made of motley (especially a court jester's costume)
noun:  a collection containing a variety of sorts of things
verb:  make motley; color with different colors
verb:  make something more diverse and varied
adjective:  having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly ("A jester dressed in motley")
adjective:  consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds (even to the point of incongruity) ("A motley crew")
name:  A surname (common: 1 in 20000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #2628)

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Phrases that include motley:   motley minded, constance baker motley, man of motley, archibald motley, marion motley, more...

Words similar to motley:   assorted, assortment, culticolour, miscellanea, miscellaneous, miscellany, mixed, mixture, multicolor, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, parti-color, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, potpourri, sundry, varicolored, more...


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