Usually means: Body of water, land enclosed.
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We found 62 dictionaries that define the word bay:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bay: Merriam-Webster
  2. bay, bay, bay, bay, bay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bay, bay, bay, bay, bay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bay: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bay, bay: Wordnik
  7. bay: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Bay, bay: Wiktionary
  9. bay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bay: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bay: Dictionary.com
  13. bay (1), bay (2), bay (3), bay (4), bay (5): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bay: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bay (TTC), Bay (architecture), Bay (chancellor), Bay (color), Bay (disambiguation), Bay (dog), Bay (geography), Bay (horse), Bay (shelving), Bay (surname), Bay, The Bay (TV series), The Bay (film), The Bay (web series), The Bay: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bay: Rhymezone
  18. bay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Bay: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. bay: FreeDictionary.org
  22. bay: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bay: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. bay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  25. bay: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary: Gothic Art and Architecture (No longer online)
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. bay: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture
  4. bay: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Bay: Legal dictionary
  6. bay: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bay: CCI Computer
  2. Webopedia (No longer online)
  3. bay: Encyclopedia
  4. bay: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

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

Miscellaneous (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Bay: Castle Terms
  5. BAY: Acronym Finder
  6. BAY: Three Letter Words with definitions
  7. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  8. bay: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bay: Easton Bible

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. bay: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. B.A.Y, BAY: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bay: BEACH-NET! (fishing)
  2. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. bay: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Bay: Dictionary of Military Architecture

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
noun:  A bank or dam to keep back water.
noun:  Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
noun:  Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
noun:  A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.
noun:  (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
noun:  (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
noun:  (obsolete) A berry.
noun:  An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
noun:  An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
noun:  A display unit in a shop or store, especially a large metal one
noun:  The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
noun:  (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
noun:  (rail transport) A bay platform.
noun:  A bay window.
noun:  The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
noun:  (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
noun:  (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
verb:  (intransitive) To howl.
verb:  (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.
verb:  (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.
adjective:  (especially of horses) Of a reddish-brown colour.
noun:  A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.
noun:  A horse of this color.
noun:  A region of Somalia.
noun:  A surname
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of San Francisco Bay Area. (metropolitan area in California); A region of California, United States [A region of California, United States The nine or twelve counties surrounding the city of San Francisco.]
noun:  (informal) Ellipsis of San Francisco Bay.; A bay of the Pacific in California, United States [(geography) A large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, which gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area.]

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