Usually means: Traditional blanket, knitted or crocheted.
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  1. Afghan: Merriam-Webster
  2. Afghan, afghan: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Afghan: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. afghan: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Afghan, afghan: Vocabulary.com
  6. Afghan, afghan: Wordnik
  7. Afghan, afghan: Wiktionary
  8. Afghan: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Afghan: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. Afghan: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Afghan: Dictionary.com
  12. Afghan: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Afghan (Australia), Afghan (blanket), Afghan (disambiguation), Afghan (ethnonym), Afghan (name), Afghan, The Afghan: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Afghan: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. afghan: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. afghan: Rhymezone
  17. Afghan: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. afghan: FreeDictionary.org
  19. afghan: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Afghan: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. afghan: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. afghan: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. Afghan: Merriam-Webster

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Afghan: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person from Afghanistan.
noun:  (historical) A person of Pashtun ethnicity.
noun:  Synonym of Afghan Hound.
noun:  Pashto, a language primarily spoken by Pashtun people in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan.
adjective:  Of, from, or pertaining to Afghanistan.
adjective:  Of, from, or pertaining to the Pashtun ethnic community.
noun:  A blanket or throw, usually crocheted or knitted.
noun:  (Australia, New Zealand) A type of iced chocolate biscuit, sometimes containing cornflakes and topped with a walnut.
noun:  (UK, military slang) Clipping of Afghanistan. [A landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia. Official name: Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Capital and largest city: Kabul.]

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