Usually means: Father of an animal's offspring.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sire: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sire: Merriam-Webster
  3. sire: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sire: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sire: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sire: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sire, sire: Wordnik
  8. sire: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sire: Wiktionary
  10. sire: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sire: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sire: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sire: Dictionary.com
  14. sire: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sire: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sire (disambiguation), Sire (novel), Sire: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sire: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sire: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sire: Rhymezone
  20. Sire: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sire: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Sire: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. sire: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sire: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sire: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. sire: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sire: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sire: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sire: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. SIRE: Acronym Finder

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

Sports (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Cat Terms (No longer online)
  2. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)
  3. Sire: Gambling Glossary
  4. Sire: Sports Definitions

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Agriculture Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  4. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
noun:  A male animal that has fathered a particular offspring (especially used of domestic animals and/or in biological research).
noun:  (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
noun:  (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
verb:  (transitive, of a male) To father; to beget.

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