Usually means: Large mammal with long trunk.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. elephant: Merriam-Webster
  2. elephant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elephant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elephant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elephant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elephant, elephant: Wordnik
  7. elephant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Elephant: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Elephant, elephant: Wiktionary
  10. elephant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. elephant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. elephant: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. elephant: Dictionary.com
  14. elephant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. elephant: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  17. Elephant: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. elephant: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. elephant: Rhymezone
  20. elephant: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. elephant: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Elephant, Elephant, Elephant: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. elephant: FreeDictionary.org
  24. elephant: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  25. elephant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. elephant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. elephant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. elephant: Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. elephant: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. elephant: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. elephant: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. elephant: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elephant: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. elephant: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Elephant: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. The Elephant: A Seattle Lexicon
  4. the elephant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mammal of the order Proboscidea, having a trunk, and two large ivory tusks jutting from the upper jaw.
noun:  (in particular) Any member of the subfamily Elephantinae not also of the genera Mammuthus and Primelephas.
noun:  (figurative) Anything huge and ponderous.
noun:  (paper, printing) Synonym of elephant paper
noun:  (British, childish) used when counting to add length, so that each count takes about one second
noun:  (uncountable, obsolete) Ivory.
noun:  (xiangqi) A xiangqi piece that is moved two points diagonally, may not jump over intervening pieces and may not cross the river.
noun:  The 105th sura (chapter) of the Quran.

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