Usually means: Personification of the United States.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word Uncle Sam:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. uncle sam: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam: Merriam-Webster
  3. Uncle Sam: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Uncle Sam: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Uncle Sam: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Uncle Sam: Vocabulary.com
  7. Uncle Sam: Wordnik
  8. Uncle Sam, Uncle sam: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Uncle Sam: Wiktionary
  10. Uncle Sam: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Uncle Sam: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Uncle Sam: Dictionary.com
  13. Uncle Sam: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Uncle Sam (Vertigo), Uncle Sam (album), Uncle Sam (comics), Uncle Sam (diamond), Uncle Sam (disambiguation), Uncle Sam (film), Uncle Sam (singer), Uncle Sam (song), Uncle Sam, Uncle sam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Uncle sam: Rhymezone
  16. UNCLE SAM: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  17. Uncle Sam: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  18. Uncle Sam: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. uncle sam: FreeDictionary.org
  20. uncle sam: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Uncle Sam: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Uncle Sam: Who2

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Uncle Sam: Investopedia

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Uncle Sam: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Uncle Sam: Idioms
  2. Uncle Sam: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. uncle sam, Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Uncle Sam, Uncle Sam: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Uncle Sam)

noun:  (colloquial, originally US) A personification of the United States federal government or (rare) citizens.

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