Usually means: Receiver of verb's action directly.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word direct object:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. direct object: Merriam-Webster
  2. direct object: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. direct object: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. direct object: Collins English Dictionary
  5. direct object: Vocabulary.com
  6. direct object: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. direct-object, direct object: Wiktionary
  8. direct object: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. direct object: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. direct object: Dictionary.com
  11. Direct object: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. direct object: Rhymezone
  13. direct object: FreeDictionary.org
  14. direct object: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. direct object: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. direct object: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Direct Object: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See direct_objects as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (direct object)

noun:  (grammar, in languages without cases) The noun or noun phrase that a verb is directly acting upon.
noun:  (grammar, in languages with case distinctions) Such an object when it is in the accusative case, but (generally) not when it is in another case.

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