Usually means: Digestive tract between stomach, anus.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word bowel:

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bowel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. bowel: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Bowel: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Bowel: Merck Manuals
  6. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Bowel: MedFriendly Glossary
  8. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  11. bowel(s): Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  12. GI Disorders (No longer online)
  13. bowel: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  14. bowel: Medical dictionary
  15. Inflammatory Bowel Disease Glossary (No longer online)
  16. WeMove Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  17. Bowel: Drug Medical Dictionary
  18. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bowel: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bowel: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See boweling as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (chiefly medicine) A part or division of the intestines, usually the large intestine.
noun:  (in the plural) The entrails or intestines; the internal organs of the stomach.
noun:  (in the plural, figuratively) The (deep) interior of something.
noun:  (in the plural, archaic) The seat of pity or the gentler emotions; pity or mercy.
noun:  (obsolete, in the plural) offspring
verb:  (now rare) To disembowel.

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