Usually means: Central vowel in unstressed syllables.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word schwa:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. schwa: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. schwa: Merriam-Webster
  3. schwa: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. schwa: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. schwa: Collins English Dictionary
  6. schwa: Vocabulary.com
  7. Schwa, schwa: Wordnik
  8. schwa: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. schwa: Wiktionary
  10. schwa: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. schwa: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. schwa: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. schwa: Dictionary.com
  14. schwa: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Schwa (Cyrillic), Schwa (art), Schwa (disambiguation), Schwa (restaurant), Schwa: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. schwa: Rhymezone
  17. schwa: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  18. schwa: FreeDictionary.org
  19. schwa: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. schwa: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. schwa: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Schwa: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. schwa: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (phonetics) An indeterminate central vowel sound as the "a" in "about", represented as /ə/ in IPA.
noun:  The character ə.
verb:  (phonetics, of a vowel sound, rare) To be reduced to schwa.
noun:  Alternative form of shva [A Hebrew nikud vowel sign written as two vertical dots beneath a letter, in Israeli Hebrew indicating either the phoneme /e/ or the complete absence of a vowel.]

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