Usually means: Sacrificial gift completely consumed by fire.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word burnt offering:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. burnt offering: Merriam-Webster
  2. burnt offering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. burnt offering: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. burnt offering: Collins English Dictionary
  5. burnt-offering, burnt offering: Wordnik
  6. burnt offering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. burnt offering: Wiktionary
  8. burnt offering: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Burnt offering, burnt offering: Dictionary.com
  10. Burnt offering (Judaism), Burnt offering (disambiguation), Burnt offering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. burnt-offering: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. burnt offering: FreeDictionary.org
  13. burnt offering: TheFreeDictionary.com
  14. burnt offering: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Burnt offering: Easton Bible
  2. Burnt offering: Smith's Bible Dictionary

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

Definitions from Wiktionary (burnt offering)

noun:  (biblical) A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.
noun:  (religion, by extension) Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
noun:  (humorous) Overcooked food.

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