Usually means: Flowing water in natural course.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word stream:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. stream: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. stream: Merriam-Webster
  3. stream, stream: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. stream: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. stream: Collins English Dictionary
  6. stream: Vocabulary.com
  7. Stream, stream: Wordnik
  8. stream: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Stream, stream: Wiktionary
  10. stream: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. stream: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. stream: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. stream: Dictionary.com
  14. stream: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. stream: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Stream (album), Stream (computer science), Stream (computing), Stream (disambiguation), Stream, The Stream (TV series), The Stream (film), The Stream, .stream: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Stream: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. stream: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. stream: Rhymezone
  20. stream: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. stream: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. stream: FreeDictionary.org
  23. stream: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. stream: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. stream: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. stream: Legal dictionary

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. STREAM, stream: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Technology Terms and Acronyms (No longer online)
  3. stream: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. stream: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. stream: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. STREAM: Acronym Finder
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. stream: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stream: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stream: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. stream: Urban Dictionary

Tech (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  5. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  6. Stream: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  7. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See streamed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.
noun:  (sciences, umbrella term) All moving waters.
noun:  A thin connected passing of a liquid through a lighter gas (e.g. air).
noun:  Current, the force of moving water.
noun:  Any steady flow or succession of material, such as water, air, radio signal or words.
noun:  (figurative) A particular path, channel, division, or way of proceeding.
noun:  (computing) A source or repository of data that can be read or written only sequentially.
noun:  Digital data (e.g. music or video) delivered in a continuous manner to a client computer, intended for immediate consumption or playback.
noun:  An instance of streaming digital data.
noun:  A live stream.
noun:  (UK, education) A division of a school year by perceived ability.
noun:  A train of thought or flow in a conversation or discussion.
verb:  (intransitive) To flow in a continuous or steady manner, like a liquid.
verb:  (intransitive) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind.
verb:  (transitive) To discharge in a stream.
verb:  (Internet) To push continuous data (e.g. music) from a server to a client computer while it is being used (played) on the client.
verb:  (Internet) To livestream.
noun:  A surname.

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