Usually means: Soft cushion for head support.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word pillow:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pillow: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pillow: Merriam-Webster
  3. pillow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pillow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pillow: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pillow: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pillow, pillow: Wordnik
  8. pillow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Pillow, pillow: Wiktionary
  10. pillow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pillow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pillow: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pillow, pillow: Dictionary.com
  14. pillow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pillow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. (Lay Your Head on My) Pillow, Pillow (bodybuilder), Pillow (disambiguation), Pillow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pillow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pillow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pillow: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pillow: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pillow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Pillow: The Word Detective
  23. pillow: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. pillow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. pillow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  26. pillow: Rhymezone

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pillow: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. pillow: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. PiLLoW: Acronym Finder
  3. pillow: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pillow: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pillow: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. pillow: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

(Note: See pillowed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A soft cushion used to support the head in bed.
noun:  Any similar head support used for sleep, such as a neck pillow or a hard porcelain pillow.
noun:  (geology) A pillow lava.
noun:  (engineering) A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block.
noun:  (nautical) A block under the inner end of a bowsprit.
noun:  The socket of a pivot.
noun:  (uncountable) A kind of plain, coarse fustian.
verb:  (transitive) To rest as on a pillow.
noun:  A surname.

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