Usually means: Abstaining from marriage and sex.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. celibacy: Merriam-Webster
  2. celibacy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. celibacy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. celibacy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. celibacy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Celibacy, celibacy: Wordnik
  7. celibacy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. celibacy: Wiktionary
  9. celibacy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. celibacy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. celibacy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Celibacy, celibacy: Dictionary.com
  13. celibacy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. celibacy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Celibacy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Celibacy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. celibacy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. celibacy: Rhymezone
  19. Celibacy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. celibacy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. celibacy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. celibacy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. celibacy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. celibacy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. celibacy: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
noun:  (by extension) Abstinence from sexual relations.

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