Usually means: Area surrounded by barriers, confined.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word enclosure:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. enclosure: Merriam-Webster
  2. enclosure: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enclosure: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enclosure: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enclosure: Vocabulary.com
  6. Enclosure, enclosure: Wordnik
  7. enclosure: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. enclosure: Wiktionary
  9. enclosure: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enclosure: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enclosure: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Enclosure, enclosure: Dictionary.com
  13. enclosure: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Enclosure (John Frusciante album), Enclosure (Merzbow album), Enclosure (archaeology), Enclosure (disambiguation), Enclosure (electrical), Enclosure (film), Enclosure, The Enclosure: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Enclosure: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. enclosure: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. enclosure: Rhymezone
  18. enclosure: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. enclosure: FreeDictionary.org
  20. enclosure: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. enclosure: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. enclosure: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. enclosure: Law.com Dictionary
  2. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Enclosure (Agricultural Revolution), Enclosure (disambiguation), enclosure: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enclosure: Encyclopedia

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Enclosure: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Energy Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See enclosures as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) Something that is enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
noun:  (uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
noun:  (countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
noun:  (uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
noun:  (uncountable, by extension) The act of restricting access to ideas, works of art or technologies using patents or intellectual property laws.
noun:  (uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
noun:  (religion) The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.

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