Usually means: Chronic addiction to consuming alcohol.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. alcoholism: Merriam-Webster
  2. alcoholism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. alcoholism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. alcoholism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. alcoholism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Alcoholism, alcoholism: Wordnik
  7. alcoholism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. alcoholism: Wiktionary
  9. alcoholism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. alcoholism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. alcoholism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. alcoholism: Dictionary.com
  13. alcoholism: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Alcoholism (behavior), Alcoholism (disease), Alcoholism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Alcoholism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. alcoholism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. alcoholism: Rhymezone
  18. Alcoholism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. alcoholism: FreeDictionary.org
  20. alcoholism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. alcoholism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. alcoholism: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  23. alcoholism: Merriam-Webster

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Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alcoholism: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. alcoholism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. alcoholism: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Alcoholism: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  7. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  8. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  9. Alcoholism: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  10. alcoholism: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  11. alcoholism: Medical dictionary
  12. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  13. Alcoholism: Drug Medical Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Alcoholism: Catholic Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A chronic disease caused by compulsive and uncontrollable consumption of alcoholic beverages, leading to addiction and deterioration in health and social functioning.
noun:  (pathology) Acute alcohol poisoning.

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