Usually means: Unexpected events causing emotional reactions.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word surprises:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. surprises: Merriam-Webster
  2. surprises: Collins English Dictionary
  3. surprises: Vocabulary.com
  4. Surprise's, Surprises, surprises: Wordnik
  5. surprises: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. surprises: Wiktionary
  7. surprises: Dictionary.com
  8. surprises: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Surprises (Herbie Mann album), Surprises, Surprises: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. surprises: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. surprises: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. surprises: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surprises: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. surprises: Idioms

(Note: See surprise as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Surprise)

noun:  Something unexpected.
noun:  A mess of feces, left by a pet or small child in an unexpected place or at an unexpected time.
noun:  The feeling that something unexpected has happened.
verb:  (transitive) To cause (someone) to feel unusually alarmed or delighted by something unexpected.
verb:  (transitive) To do something to (a person) that they are not expecting, as a surprise.
verb:  (intransitive) To undergo or witness something unexpected.
verb:  (intransitive) To cause surprise.
verb:  (transitive) To attack unexpectedly.
verb:  (transitive) To take unawares.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A city in Maricopa County, Arizona, the largest place with this name.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Indiana.
noun:  A village in Butler County, Nebraska.
noun:  A locality in Greene County, New York.
noun:  Former name of Surprise Station, California.
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