Usually means: Dog breed skilled in retrieving.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. retriever: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. retriever: Merriam-Webster
  3. retriever: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. retriever: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. retriever: Collins English Dictionary
  6. retriever: Vocabulary.com
  7. Retriever, retriever: Wordnik
  8. retriever: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. retriever: Wiktionary
  10. retriever: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. retriever: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. retriever: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Retriever, retriever: Dictionary.com
  14. Retriever (Labrador), Retriever (album), Retriever (disambiguation), Retriever: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Retriever: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. retriever: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. retriever: Rhymezone
  18. Retriever: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. retriever: FreeDictionary.org
  20. retriever: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. retriever: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Retriever (Chesapeake Bay), Retriever (Flat Coated), Retriever (Labrador), retriever: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Retriever (Chesapeake Bay), Retriever (Curly Coated), Retriever (Flat Coated), Retriever (Labrador), retriever: Medical dictionary

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

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See retrievers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who retrieves something.
noun:  A type of gun dog that retrieves game for a hunter.
noun:  (surgery) A tool for retrieving materials from the body after an operation.

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