Usually means: Hooved mammals, antlers, forest dwellers.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. deer: Merriam-Webster
  2. deer: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deer: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deer: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deer, deer: Wordnik
  7. deer: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deer: Wiktionary
  9. deer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. deer: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. deer: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Deer, deer: Dictionary.com
  13. deer: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. deer: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Deer (disambiguation), Deer (mythology), Deer, The Deer (film), The Deer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Deer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. deer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. deer: Rhymezone
  19. deer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. deer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Deer: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. deer: FreeDictionary.org
  23. deer: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. deer: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. deer: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. deer: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. deer: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. deer: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. deer: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. DEER: Acronym Finder
  4. deer: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Deer: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. deer: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Deer, deer: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (countable) A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.
noun:  (countable; in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk.
noun:  (uncountable) The meat of such an animal; venison.
noun:  (countable; obsolete, except in the phrase "small deer") Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
noun:  Villages in Aberdeenshire, Scotland: See New Deer and Old Deer.
noun:  A township in Roseau County, Minnesota, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Osage County, Missouri, United States.

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