Usually means: Organ responsible for breathing air.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word lung:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. lung: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lung: Merriam-Webster
  3. lung: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lung: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lung: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lung: Vocabulary.com
  7. L'ung, Lung, lung: Wordnik
  8. lung: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Lung, Lung, Lung, Lung, Lung, Lung, Lung: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Lung, lung: Wiktionary
  11. lung: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. lung: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. lung: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. lung: Dictionary.com
  15. lung: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. lung: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Lung (Chinese medicine), Lung (Tibetan Buddhism), Lung (Zang), Lung (disambiguation), Lung: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. lung: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lung: Rhymezone
  20. lung: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lung: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lung: FreeDictionary.org
  23. lung: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lung: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. lung: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Lung: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lung: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. lung: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. lung: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  6. lung: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lung: Idioms

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

(Note: See lungful as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) A biological organ of vertebrates that controls breathing and oxygenates the blood.
noun:  (in the plural) Capacity for exercise or exertion; breath.
noun:  That which supplies oxygen or fresh air, such as trees, parklands, forest, etc., to a place.
noun:  A surname.

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