Usually means: Holder for storing various items.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word container:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. container: Merriam-Webster
  2. container: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. container: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. container: Collins English Dictionary
  5. container: Vocabulary.com
  6. Container, container: Wordnik
  7. container: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Container: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. container: Wiktionary
  10. container: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. container: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. container: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Container, container: Dictionary.com
  14. container: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Container (abstract data type), Container (board game), Container (cargo), Container (data structure), Container (disambiguation), Container (film), Container (programming), Container (song), Container (type theory), Container (virtualization), Container: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Container: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. container: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. container: Rhymezone
  19. Container: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. container: FreeDictionary.org
  21. container: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. container: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. container: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electronic Commerce Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  3. Abbreviations in shipping (No longer online)
  4. container: Legal dictionary
  5. Glossary of Trade and Shipping Terms (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Trucking Terms (No longer online)
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  8. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Container: Linktionary Networking Glossary
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Technopedia (No longer online)
  4. Container (cargo), Container (data structure), container: Encyclopedia
  5. Webopedia (No longer online)

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Container: Skydiving Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Container: Dictionary of Candlemaking Terms
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See containerless as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Someone who contains; something that contains.
noun:  An item in which objects, materials or data can be stored or transported.
noun:  (transport) A very large, typically metal, box used for transporting goods.
noun:  (by extension) Someone who holds people in their seats or in a (reasonably) calm state.
noun:  (computing)
noun:  (file format) A file format that can hold various types of data.
noun:  (object-oriented programming) An abstract data type whose instances are collections of other objects.
noun:  (graphical user interface) Any user interface component that can hold further (child) components.
noun:  (Java programming language) A web container.
noun:  (cloud computing) A bundle consisting of operating system, application code and dependencies to be run sandboxed inside a virtualized environment; (by extension) the environment itself.
noun:  (crosswording) A type of cryptic device where one word is inserted into another.

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