Usually means: Boot named after Duke Wellington.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word Wellington:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. wellington: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Wellington, Wellington: Merriam-Webster
  3. Wellington, Wellington, wellington: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Wellington: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Wellington: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Wellington: Vocabulary.com
  7. Wellington, wellington: Wordnik
  8. wellington (boot): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Wellington, wellington: Wiktionary
  10. Wellington: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Wellington: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Wellington: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. wellington: Dictionary.com
  14. Wellington: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Wellington (CTA station), Wellington (MBTA station), Wellington (New Zealand electorate), Wellington (disambiguation), Wellington (electoral district), Wellington (footballer), Wellington: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Wellington: Rhymezone
  17. Wellington: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. wellington: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Wellington: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. wellington: FreeDictionary.org

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wellington (New Zealand), Wellington: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wellington: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Wellington: Wordcraft Dictionary

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

(Note: See wellingtons as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Wellington)

noun:  The capital city of New Zealand.
noun:  (metonymically) by extension, the Government of New Zealand.
noun:  Wellington Region, a region in the south of the North Island, New Zealand, which includes the capital.
noun:  Several places in England:
noun:  A locality in Gosforth parish, Copeland borough, Cumbria (OS grid ref NY0704).
noun:  A village and civil parish in Herefordshire (OS grid ref SO4948).
noun:  A market town and civil parish with a town council in Telford and Wrekin borough, Shropshire (OS grid ref SJ6511).
noun:  A market town and civil parish with a town council in Somerset, previously in Somerset West and Taunton district (OS grid ref ST1320).
noun:  Any of several places in a select number of countries, including:
noun:  A town in The Nilgiris district, Tamil Nadu, India.
noun:  A town in the Western Cape, South Africa.
noun:  A number of places in Australia:
noun:  A town in Sumner County, New South Wales.
noun:  A tiny township in South Australia.
noun:  The Shire of Wellington, a local government area in eastern Victoria.
noun:  A number of places in Canada:
noun:  A neighborhood of Nanaimo, British Columbia.
noun:  A former name of a small incorporated fishing and lumbering village in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, now called Dover.
noun:  A community of the Regional Municipality of Halifax, Nova Scotia; an a suburb of Halifax.
noun:  A community of Yarmouth district municipality, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia.
noun:  A community of Queens County, Nova Scotia.
noun:  A community and rural municipality of Prince County, Prince Edward Island, Canada.
noun:  An unincorporated place and community of Prince Edward County, Ontario.
noun:  A residential neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  An unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Alabama.
noun:  A statutory town in Larimer County, Colorado.
noun:  A village in Palm Beach County, Florida.
noun:  A village in Lovejoy Township, Iroquois County, Florida.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Sumner County, Kansas.
noun:  A home rule city in Jefferson County, Kentucky; an a suburb of Louisville.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Menifee County, Kentucky.
noun:  A small city in Piscataquis County, Maine.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Gogebic County, Michigan.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Lyon County, Nevada, also Wellingtons and Wellingtons Station.
noun:  A village in Lorain County, Ohio.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Collingsworth County, Texas.
noun:  A small city in Carbon County, Utah.
noun:  Former name of Tye, King County, Washington, which later became a ghost town.
noun:  A small town in Monroe County, Wisconsin.
noun:  Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.
noun:  (countable) A habitational surname from Old English from the places in England.
noun:  (card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.
noun:  (cooking) Meat baked in a puff pastry.
noun:  Ellipsis of Wellington Land District., A district of Tasmania.
noun:  Ellipsis of Wellington boot. [(rare in the singular) One of a pair of Wellington boots.]
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of Wellington (the boot). [The capital city of New Zealand.]

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