Usually means: Plaid fabric from Chennai, India.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word madras:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. madras: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Madras, madras: Merriam-Webster
  3. Madras, madras: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. Madras, madras: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. madras: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Madras, madras: Vocabulary.com
  7. Madras, madras: Wordnik
  8. Madras, madras: Wiktionary
  9. madras: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. madras: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. madras: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Madras, madras: Dictionary.com
  13. madras: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Madras (beverage), Madras (cloth), Madras (costume), Madras (disambiguation), Madras (film), Madras (soundtrack), Madras: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. madras: Rhymezone
  16. madras: FreeDictionary.org
  17. madras: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. madras: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Madras: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. madras: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Madras: Catholic Encyclopedia

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Textile (No longer online)

(Note: See madrass as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Jefferson County, Oregon, United States.
noun:  (British) A style of curry dish purported to originate from the Madras region.
noun:  A brightly colored cotton fabric with a checked or striped pattern.
noun:  A large handkerchief of this fabric, worn on the head in the West Indies.
noun:  Alternative form of Madras (“type of curry”) [Former name of Chennai, the capital and largest city of Tamil Nadu, India.]

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