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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. heartburn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. heartburn: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Heartburn: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Heartburn: Merck Manuals
  6. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  8. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  10. Pregnancy & Baby (No longer online)
  11. Heartburn: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  12. A-Z Family health glossary (No longer online)
  13. heartburn: Medical dictionary
  14. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. Heartburn: Drug Medical Dictionary
  16. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. heartburn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. heartburn: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See heartburning as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (pathology) A burning pain in the chest that is caused by stomach acid entering the gullet.
noun:  (figuratively) Synonym of annoyance (“state of being annoyed”)

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