Usually means: Specify meaning of a word.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word define:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. define: Merriam-Webster
  2. define: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. define: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. define: Collins English Dictionary
  5. define: Vocabulary.com
  6. Define, define: Wordnik
  7. define: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. define: Wiktionary
  9. define: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. define: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. define: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Define, define: Dictionary.com
  13. define: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. define: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Define: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Define: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. define: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. define: Rhymezone
  19. define: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. define: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. define: FreeDictionary.org
  22. define: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. define: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. define: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. define: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. define: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. define: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. define: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. define: Idioms

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To determine with precision; to mark out with distinctness; to ascertain or exhibit clearly.
verb:  (obsolete) To settle, decide (an argument etc.)
verb:  To express the essential nature of something.
verb:  To state the meaning of a word, phrase, sign, or symbol.
verb:  To describe, explain, or make definite and clear; used to request the listener or other person to elaborate or explain more clearly his or her intended meaning of a word or expression.
verb:  To demark sharply the outlines or limits of an area or concept.
verb:  (mathematics) To establish the referent of a term or notation.
noun:  (programming) A kind of macro in source code that replaces one text string with another wherever it occurs.

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