Usually means: Intense desire or craving, usually sexual.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. lust: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lust: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lust: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lust: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lust: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lust, lust: Wordnik
  7. lust: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lust: Wiktionary
  9. lust: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lust: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lust: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. LUST: Dictionary.com
  13. lust: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lust: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lust (Ambitious Lovers album), Lust (Depth Charge album), Lust (Fullmetal Alchemist), Lust (Jelinek novel), Lust (Kendrick Lamar song), Lust (Lil Skies song), Lust (Lords of Acid album), Lust (Michael Rother album), Lust (Ryman novel), Lust (color), Lust (disambiguation), Lust: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lust: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lust: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lust: Rhymezone
  19. lust: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lust: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. LUST: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. lust: FreeDictionary.org
  23. lust: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lust: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. lust: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lust-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lust (disambiguation), lust: Legal dictionary
  2. LUST, Lust (disambiguation): Financial dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lust: Encyclopedia
  2. Lust (disambiguation): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. LUST: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. lust: Idioms
  5. lust: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Lust: Easton Bible
  2. Lust: Catholic Encyclopedia
  3. LUST: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LUST: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING

(Note: See lusted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A feeling of strong desire, especially such a feeling driven by sexual arousal.
noun:  (archaic) A general want or longing, not necessarily sexual.
noun:  (archaic) A delightful cause of joy, pleasure.
noun:  (obsolete) Virility; vigour; active power.
verb:  (intransitive, usually in the phrase lust after) To look at or watch with a strong desire, especially of a sexual nature.
verb:  (archaic; transitive or intransitive with after, for, to, etc.; formerly also reflexive) To desire.

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