Usually means: Contamination of environment by substances.
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We found 42 dictionaries that define the word pollution:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. pollution: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pollution: Merriam-Webster
  3. pollution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pollution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pollution: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pollution: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pollution, pollution: Wordnik
  8. pollution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pollution: Wiktionary
  10. pollution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pollution: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pollution: Dictionary.com
  13. pollution: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pollution: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pollution (album), Pollution (disambiguation), Pollution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pollution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pollution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. pollution: Rhymezone
  19. pollution, pollution (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pollution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. pollution: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pollution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pollution: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. pollution: Legal dictionary
  5. pollution: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pollution: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. pollution: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. pollution: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. pollution: Medical dictionary

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

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See pollutions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Physical contamination, now especially the contamination of the environment by harmful substances, or by disruptive levels of noise, light etc.
noun:  Something that pollutes; a pollutant.
noun:  (now rare) The desecration of something holy or sacred; defilement, profanation.
noun:  (now archaic) The ejaculation of semen outside of sexual intercourse, especially a nocturnal emission.
noun:  Moral or spiritual corruption; impurity, degradation, defilement.

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