Usually means: Mythical creature with single horn.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. unicorn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unicorn: Merriam-Webster
  3. unicorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unicorn: The Word Spy
  5. unicorn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. unicorn: Collins English Dictionary
  7. unicorn: Vocabulary.com
  8. Unicorn, unicorn: Wordnik
  9. unicorn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  10. unicorn: Wiktionary
  11. unicorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. unicorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. unicorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. unicorn: Dictionary.com
  15. unicorn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. unicorn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  18. Unicorn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. unicorn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. unicorn: Rhymezone
  21. unicorn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. unicorn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. unicorn: FreeDictionary.org
  24. unicorn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. unicorn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. Unicorn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. An Etymological Dictionary of Classical Mythology (No longer online)
  3. Unicorn: Dictionary of Symbolism

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unicorn: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. UNICORN: Acronym Finder
  3. unicorn: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Unicorn: Easton Bible
  2. Unicorn: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unicorn: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unicorn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Unicorn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See unicorning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A mythical beast resembling a horse or deer with a single, straight, spiraled horn projecting from its forehead.
noun:  (historical) In various Bible translations, used to render the Latin unicornis or rhinoceros (representing Hebrew רְאֵם): a reem or wild ox.
noun:  Any large beetle having a horn-like prominence on the head or prothorax, especially the Hercules beetle, Dynastes tityus.
noun:  A caterpillar, Schizura unicornis, with a large thorn-like spine on the back near its head.
noun:  The kamichi, or unicorn bird.
noun:  (military) A howitzer.
noun:  Someone or something that is rare and hard to find.
noun:  (slang) A single, usually bisexual woman who participates in swinging or polyamory.
noun:  (business) A person with multidisciplinary expertise, especially a laundry list of three or more skills in a young field such as UX design or data science (e.g., domain knowledge, statistics, and software engineering).
noun:  (finance) A startup company whose valuation has exceeded one billion U.S. dollars, which is solely backed by venture capitalists, and which has yet to have an IPO.
noun:  (attributive) Being many (especially pastel) colours; multicoloured.
noun:  (historical) A 15th-century Scottish gold coin worth 18 shillings, bearing the image of a unicorn.
noun:  Certain animals:
noun:  A Siberian unicorn, †Elasmotherium sibiricum.
noun:  An Asian unicorn, or saola, Pseudoryx nghetinhensis.
verb:  (slang) To participate in a sexual threesome as a bisexual addition to an established heterosexual couple.
verb:  (finance) To exceed a valuation of one billion U.S. dollars, while solely backed by venture capitalists.
adjective:  Having one horn.
adjective:  Rare and hard to find.

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