Usually means: Word appearing only once textually.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word hapax legomenon:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. hapax legomenon: Merriam-Webster
  2. hapax legomenon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hapax legomenon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hapax legomenon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hapax legomenon: Vocabulary.com
  6. hapax legomenon: Wiktionary
  7. hapax legomenon: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. hapax legomenon: Dictionary.com
  9. hapax legomenon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. Hapax legomenon: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. hapax legomenon: Rhymezone
  12. hapax legomenon: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  13. hapax legomenon: FreeDictionary.org
  14. hapax legomenon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. hapax legomenon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hapax legomenon: A Word A Day
  2. hapax legomenon: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hapax legomenon: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See hapax_legomena as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (hapax legomenon)

noun:  (linguistics) A word occurring only once in a given corpus.

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