Usually means: Fictional detective, master of deduction.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word Sherlock Holmes:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. sherlock holmes: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes: Merriam-Webster
  3. Holmes, Sherlock: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Sherlock Holmes: Vocabulary.com
  5. sherlock-holmes: Wordnik
  6. Sherlock Holmes: Wiktionary
  7. Sherlock Holmes: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. Holmes, Sherlock, sherlock holmes: Dictionary.com
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  10. Sherlock holmes: Rhymezone
  11. sherlock holmes: FreeDictionary.org
  12. sherlock holmes: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. Holmes, Sherlock: Who2

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Television (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Holmes, Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes: Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sherlock Holmes: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. sherlock holmes: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Sherlock Holmes)

noun:  A series of novels by Arthur Conan Doyle about a consulting detective with keen observational awareness, astute logical reasoning and professional forensic skills; also related media based on the books, such as movies.
noun:  The fictional detective who is the protagonist of the series.
noun:  (figuratively, by extension) Any person who has or is considered to have great powers of observation and deduction.

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