Usually means: Prefix meaning "again" or "back."
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We found 66 dictionaries that define the word re:

General (31 matching dictionaries)
  1. re: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Re, 're, re, re-: Merriam-Webster
  3. RE, Re, Re, Re, Re, re, re, re, re-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. RE, Re, re, re, re-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. 're, re, re-: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Re, re: Vocabulary.com
  7. R.E, RE, Re, re, re, re, re, re, re, re-, rE: Wordnik
  8. 're, re, re-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. 're, r.e, re, re-: Wiktionary
  10. -'re, re, re-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. Re, re, re, re-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. re: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Re, 're, .re, r.e, re, re-: Dictionary.com
  14. re, re-: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. re, re-: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. RE (automobile), RE (complexity), RE (e-mail), RE, ...Re, ...Re (film), Re(cord), Re(mix), Re (Egyptian religion), Re (interjection), Re (kana), Re, Re, 're, .re: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Re-, Re: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. re, re-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. re: Rhymezone
  20. Re-, Re, re: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. re: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. re, re-: MyWord.info
  23. RE, Re, .re: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  24. Re: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  25. re, re-: FreeDictionary.org
  26. re: Mnemonic Dictionary
  27. RE, re, re-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  28. re: Wordnik
  29. re (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. re-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. re: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Re: Legal dictionary
  6. RE: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. RE, re: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. RE: Netlingo
  3. re: CCI Computer
  4. SMS Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Re (Egyptian religion), Re: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Re: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. R.E, Re-: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  6. Re (Egyptian religion), Re, re-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)
  2. re, re, re: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  3. RE-, RE: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. re: Idioms

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Electrochemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Re: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  4. RE: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia
  5. Re, re: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations
  6. Re: WebElements Periodic Table of the Elements

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. re: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. re, re [12]: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RE: GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS, CARTOGRAPHY, AND REMOTE SENSING
  2. Book Binding (No longer online)

(Note: See reing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (music) A syllable used in solfège to represent the second note of a major scale.
noun:  (in company names) Reinsurance.
noun:  A municipality of Vestfold, Norway
noun:  (rail transport) The station code of Rewari Junction railway station in India.
noun:  (video games, slang) Clipping of rematch. [A repeated contest staged between the same opponents or teams which played a previous contest.]
noun:  (marketing, branding) Clipping of reinsurance. (used in the branding of reinsurance company names) [(business, insurance) Insurance purchased by insurance companies that spreads the risk associated with selling insurance around so the danger of one large monetary loss is minimized.]
noun:  (Egyptian mythology) Alternative form of Ra [(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian god of the Sun.]
noun:  Initialism of Royal Engineers, a regiment in the British Army.
noun:  (classics) Abbreviation of Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft.
noun:  (computing theory, computational complexity theory) Abbreviation of recursively enumerable; the class of decision problems for which a 'yes' answer can be verified by a Turing machine in a finite amount of time.
noun:  Abbreviation of religious education. [The teaching of a particular religion, and its doctrines, beliefs etc.]
noun:  Abbreviation of rare earth. [(chemistry) Any of the naturally occurring oxides of the lanthanide metals; they are widely distributed in relatively small concentrations and are used in glassmaking, ceramic glazes etc.]
noun:  (biochemistry, genetics) Initialism of response element.
noun:  Abbreviation of real estate. [(US, Canada, Australia) Property that cannot easily be moved, usually buildings and the ground they are built on.]
noun:  Abbreviation of renewable energy. [Energy that is collected from renewable resources, such as wind, water, or the sun, usually and especially as applied to a category of electrical generation.]
noun:  (computing, countable) Abbreviation of run-time environment.

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