Usually means: Expressions of emotion through tears.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word cries:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. cries: Merriam-Webster
  2. cries: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cries: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cries: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cries: Vocabulary.com
  6. Cries, cries: Wordnik
  7. cries: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. cries: Wiktionary
  9. Cries, cries: Dictionary.com
  10. cries: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. Cries: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Cries: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. Cries: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. cries: FreeDictionary.org
  15. cries: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. cries: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cries: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. CRIES: Acronym Finder
  2. cries: Idioms

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

(Note: See cry as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cry)

verb:  (intransitive) To shed tears; to weep. Especially in anger or sadness
verb:  (transitive) To utter loudly; to call out; to declare publicly.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To shout, scream, yell.
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To forcefully attract attention or proclaim one’s presence.
verb:  (intransitive) To utter inarticulate sounds, as animals do.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to do something, or bring to some state, by crying or weeping.
verb:  To make oral and public proclamation of; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, auctioned, etc.
verb:  Hence, to publish the banns of, as for marriage.
noun:  A shedding of tears; the act of crying.
noun:  A shout or scream.
noun:  Words shouted or screamed.
noun:  A clamour or outcry.
noun:  (collectively) A group of hounds.
noun:  (by extension, obsolete, derogatory) A pack or company of people.
noun:  (of an animal) A typical sound made by the species in question.
noun:  A desperate or urgent request.
noun:  (obsolete) Common report; gossip.
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