Usually means: Snake-like creature, often symbolic.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word Serpent:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. serpent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. serpent: Merriam-Webster
  3. serpent, the Serpent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. serpent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. serpent: Collins English Dictionary
  6. serpent: Vocabulary.com
  7. Serpent, serpent: Wordnik
  8. serpent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Serpent, serpent: Wiktionary
  10. serpent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. serpent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. serpent: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. serpent: Dictionary.com
  14. serpent: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. serpent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Serpent (Bible), Serpent (band), Serpent (cipher), Serpent (comics), Serpent (instrument), Serpent (musical instrument), Serpent (mythology), Serpent (novel), Serpent (roller coaster), Serpent (software), Serpent (symbolism), Serpent (video game), Serpent, The Serpent (Da Vinci's Demons), The Serpent (album), The Serpent (novel), The Serpent, The serpent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Serpent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. serpent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. serpent: Rhymezone
  20. Serpent, serpent (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. serpent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Serpent: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. Serpent: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. serpent: FreeDictionary.org
  25. serpent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. The Serpent, serpent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  27. serpent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SimplyTheBest Music Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Serpent: Classical Music Guide
  4. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  5. Serpent: Dictionary of Symbolism
  6. Serpent: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Serpent (disambiguation), Serpent, The Serpent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SERPENT: Acronym Finder

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

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Serpent (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. serpent: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See serpenting as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Serpent)

▸ noun:  (now literary) A snake, especially a large or dangerous one.
▸ noun:  (figurative) A subtle, treacherous, malicious person.
▸ noun:  (music) An obsolete wind instrument in the brass family, whose shape is suggestive of a snake (Wikipedia article).
▸ noun:  A kind of firework with a serpentine motion.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To wind or meander
▸ verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To encircle.
▸ noun:  the constellation Serpens
▸ noun:  (figuratively) Satan

Similar:
snake, ophidian, viper, dragon, serpentkind, serpentry, sand viper, boa constrictor, rat snake, snakess, more...

Opposite:
mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian

Types:
rattlesnake, cobra, viper, mamba, bushmaster, boa, anaconda, python, coral snake, more...

Phrases:
the serpent, plumed serpent, sea serpent, Feathered Serpent, brazen serpent, more...

Adjectives:
old, great, brazen, sea, huge, headed, feathered, plumed, venomous, large, fiery

Colors:
    emerald,     jade,     olive,     forest green,     lime, more...


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Similar:
snake, ophidian, viper, dragon, serpentkind, serpentry, sand viper, boa constrictor, rat snake, snakess, more...

Opposite:
mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian

Types:
rattlesnake, cobra, viper, mamba, bushmaster, boa, anaconda, python, coral snake, more...

Phrases:
the serpent, plumed serpent, sea serpent, Feathered Serpent, brazen serpent, Old Serpent, Rainbow Serpent, serpent power, serpent worship, serpent mound, fiery serpent, midgard serpent, serpent eagle, more...

Adjectives:
old, great, brazen, sea, huge, headed, feathered, plumed, venomous, large, fiery

Colors:
    emerald,     jade,     olive,     forest green,     lime, more...



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