Usually means: Meditative state of calm awareness.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. zen: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Zen, Zen, zen: Merriam-Webster
  3. Zen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Zen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. Zen: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Zen: Vocabulary.com
  7. Zen, zen: Wordnik
  8. Zen, zen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Zen, zen: Wiktionary
  10. Zen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Zen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. Zen: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Zen: Dictionary.com
  14. Zen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. zen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. ZEN (Palermo), ZEN (department store), ZEN (portable media player), ZEN, Zen (BBC TV Series), Zen (Blake's 7), Zen (Chinese band), Zen (DJ Krush album), Zen (Dutch band), Zen (TV series), Zen (department store), Zen (disambiguation), Zen (microarchitecture), Zen (portable media player), Zen (software), Zen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Zen: Rhymezone
  18. zen: FreeDictionary.org
  19. zen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Zen: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. zen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Zen: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Zen, zen: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Zen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Zen: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ZEn: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Buddhism Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Religious Tolerance (No longer online)
  3. Basic Terms of Shinto (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. zen: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Zen: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (religion) A school of Mahayana Buddhism characterized by sudden enlightenment achieved by indirect means and principally associated with China and Japan.
adjective:  (religion) Of or related to Zen Buddhism.
noun:  (religion) Synonym of enlightenment, particularly the kind acquired through Zen meditation.
noun:  An approach to instruction, understanding, or an activity similarly emphasizing simplicity and intuition rather than conventional thinking or fixation on goals.
adjective:  (colloquial) Wise, displaying enlightenment or similar wisdom, insightful, unburdened and free of worries, extremely relaxed and capable.
noun:  Alternative letter-case form of zen: (religion) enlightenment and (informal) mindful action, instruction, or behavior considered similar to Zen. [(religion) Synonym of enlightenment, particularly the kind acquired through Zen meditation.]
adjective:  (colloquial) Alternative letter-case form of zen. [(colloquial) Wise, displaying enlightenment or similar wisdom, insightful, unburdened and free of worries, extremely relaxed and capable.]
adjective:  (religion) Alternative letter-case form of Zen: of or related to Zen Buddhism, particularly its focus on indirect teaching of wisdom through riddles and stories. [(religion) Of or related to Zen Buddhism.]

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