Usually means: Warm knitwear for upper body.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sweater: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sweater: Merriam-Webster
  3. sweater: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sweater: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sweater: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sweater: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sweater, sweater: Wordnik
  8. sweater: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sweater: Wiktionary
  10. sweater: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sweater: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sweater: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sweater: Dictionary.com
  14. sweater: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sweater: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sweater (EP), Sweater (film), Sweater: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sweater: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sweater: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sweater: Rhymezone
  20. sweater, sweater (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sweater: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Sweater: American-Britih Dictionary
  23. sweater: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sweater: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sweater: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweater: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sweater, sweater, sweater: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See sweaters as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A knitted jacket or jersey, usually of thick wool, worn by athletes before or after exercise.
noun:  (US) A similar garment worn for warmth.
noun:  One who sweats (produces sweat).
noun:  One who or that which causes to sweat.
noun:  A diaphoretic remedy.
noun:  (historical) An exploitative middleman who subcontracted piece work in the tailoring trade.
noun:  (archaic) One who sweats coins, i.e. removes small portions by shaking them.
noun:  (UK, obsolete) A London street ruffian in Queen Anne's time who prodded passers-by with his sword-point.
verb:  (transitive) To dress in a sweater.

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