We found 30 dictionaries that define the word
detective:
General (24 matching dictionaries)
- detective: Merriam-Webster
- detective: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
- detective: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
- detective: Collins English Dictionary
- detective: Vocabulary.com
- Detective, detective: Wordnik
- detective: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
- detective: Wiktionary
- detective: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
- detective: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
- detective: Infoplease Dictionary
- detective: Dictionary.com
- detective: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
- Detective (band), Detective (disambiguation), Detective (novel), Detective (upcoming film), Detective, The Detective (novel), The Detective (video game), The Detective: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
- Detective: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
- detective: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
- detective: Rhymezone
- detective, detective, detective (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
- detective: FreeDictionary.org
- detective: Mnemonic Dictionary
- detective: TheFreeDictionary.com
- detective: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Business (3 matching dictionaries)
- detective: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
- Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
- detective: Legal dictionary
Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
- Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
- detective: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
- detective: Urban Dictionary
(Note: See
detectivelike as well.)
▸ noun: (law enforcement) A police officer tasked with collecting evidence and information in order to solve a crime; an investigator.
▸ noun: A person employed to find information not otherwise available to the public.
▸ adjective: Employed in detecting.
investigator,
TEC,
police detective,
private detective,
criminalist,
private investigator,
examiner,
investigatress,
coinvestigator,
house detective,
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private,
good,
great,
young,
amateur,
famous,
female,
boiled,
former,
real,
fictional
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