Usually means: Insect with wings, nocturnal, varied.
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General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. moth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. moth: Merriam-Webster
  3. moth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. moth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. moth: Collins English Dictionary
  6. moth: Vocabulary.com
  7. Moth, moth: Wordnik
  8. moth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Moth: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. moth: Wiktionary
  11. moth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. moth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. moth: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Moth, moth: Dictionary.com
  15. moth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. moth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Moth (Chairlift album), Moth (album), Moth (band), Moth (character), Moth (comics), Moth (dinghy), Moth (disambiguation), Moth, The Moth (Lost), The Moth (magazine), The Moth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Moth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. moth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. moth: Rhymezone
  21. moth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. moth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. Moth: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  24. Moth: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. moth: FreeDictionary.org
  26. moth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. moth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. moth: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. moth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
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  2. moth: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. MOTH: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. moth: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Moth: Easton Bible
  2. Moth: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Moth: HYPP Zoology

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. moth: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. M.O.T.H: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A usually nocturnal insect of the order Lepidoptera, distinguished from butterflies by feather-like antennae.
noun:  (figurative) Anything that gradually and silently eats, consumes, or wastes any other thing.
verb:  (intransitive) To hunt for moths.
noun:  A moth bean plant (Vigna aconitifolia).
noun:  (Ireland, slang) A girlfriend.
noun:  (dated) A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one.
noun:  Obsolete form of mote. [A small particle; a speck.]

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