Usually means: Excessive greed for wealth, materialism.
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  1. avarice: Merriam-Webster
  2. avarice: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. avarice: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. avarice: Collins English Dictionary
  5. avarice: Vocabulary.com
  6. Avarice, avarice: Wordnik
  7. avarice: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. avarice: Wiktionary
  9. avarice: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. avarice: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. avarice: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. avarice: Dictionary.com
  13. avarice: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. avarice: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Avarice (disambiguation), Avarice: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Avarice: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. avarice: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. avarice: Rhymezone
  19. avarice, avarice (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. avarice: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. avarice: FreeDictionary.org
  22. avarice: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. avarice: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. avarice: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. avarice: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. avarice: Merriam-Webster

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  1. avarice: Legal dictionary

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  1. avarice: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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

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

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noun:  Excessive or inordinate desire of gain; greed for wealth
noun:  Inordinate desire for some supposed good.

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