Usually means: Unlawful killing of a human.
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We found 49 dictionaries that define the word homicide:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. homicide: Merriam-Webster
  2. Homicide, homicide: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. homicide: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. homicide: Collins English Dictionary
  5. homicide: Vocabulary.com
  6. Homicide, homicide: Wordnik
  7. homicide: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. homicide: Wiktionary
  9. homicide: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. homicide: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. homicide: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. homicide: Dictionary.com
  13. homicide: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. homicide: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Homicide (Australian TV series), Homicide (Australian series), Homicide (disambiguation), Homicide (season Homicide+++(season+++1)), Homicide (season 7), Homicide (song), Homicide (wrestler), Homicide: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Homicide: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. homicide: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. homicide: Rhymezone
  19. Homicide, homicide (m) (involontaire/ par imprudence): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. homicide: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. homicide: FreeDictionary.org
  22. homicide: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. homicide: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. homicide: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. homicide: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. homicide: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. homicide: Law.com Dictionary
  5. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  7. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  8. International Law Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. homicide: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. homicide: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. homicide: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Homicide: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Homicide: MedFriendly Glossary
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  7. homicide: Medical dictionary
  8. Homicide: Drug Medical Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Homicide: Catholic Encyclopedia

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. homicide: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Homicide: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  3. Homicide: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

(Note: See homicides as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.
noun:  (countable) A person who kills another.
noun:  (countable, US, police jargon) A victim of homicide; a person who has been unlawfully killed by someone else.
noun:  (uncountable, US) The department within a police force that investigates cases of homicide.

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