Usually means: Adult sexually attracted to children.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word pedophile:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedophile: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pedophile: Merriam-Webster
  3. pedophile: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pedophile: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pedophile: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pedophile: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pedophile, pedophile: Wordnik
  8. pedophile: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pedophile: Wiktionary
  10. pedophile: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pedophile: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pedophile: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. pedophile: Dictionary.com
  14. Pedophile: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. pedophile: Rhymezone
  16. pedophile: FreeDictionary.org
  17. pedophile: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. pedophile: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pedophile: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedophile: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pedophile: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. pedophile: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pedophile: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See pedophiles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (psychiatry, sexology) A person aged 16 or older who is mostly or only sexually attracted toward prepubescent children.
noun:  (by extension, common use) An adult who is sexually attracted to or engages in sexual acts with a child.

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