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We found 39 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word literal: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "literal" is defined. General (29 matching dictionaries) literal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info] literal: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] literal: Vocabulary.com [home, info] literal: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info] literal: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info] Literal, literal: Wordnik [home, info] literal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info] literal: Wiktionary [home, info] literal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info] literal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info] literal: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info] Literal, literal: Dictionary.com [home, info] literal: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info] literal: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info] literal: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info] Literal (computer science), Literal (disambiguation), Literal (mathematical logic), Literal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info] Literal: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info] literal: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info] literal: Rhymezone [home, info] literal, literal: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info] literal: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info] literal: All About Homonyms [home, info] literal: Free Dictionary [home, info] literal: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info] literal: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info] literal: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info] literal: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info] Art (2 matching dictionaries) literal: Literary Criticism [home, info] literal: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info] Business (1 matching dictionary) Literal (disambiguation), literal: Legal dictionary [home, info] Computing (4 matching dictionaries) literal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info] literal: CCI Computer [home, info] literal: Webopedia [home, info] Literal (disambiguation), literal: Encyclopedia [home, info] Medicine (1 matching dictionary) literal: online medical dictionary [home, info] Science (2 matching dictionaries) Literal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info] literal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (literal) ▸ noun:  a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind ▸ adjective:  limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text ("A literal translation") ▸ adjective:  of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis ("It's the literal truth") ▸ adjective:  lacking stylistic embellishment ("A literal description") ▸ adjective:  without interpretation or embellishment ("A literal translation of the scene before him") ▸ adjective:  (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original ("Literal translation of the article") ▸ adjective:  being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something ("A literal solitude like a desert- G.K.Chesterton") ▸ Word origin