Usually means: Male reproductive cells for fertilization.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. sperm: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sperm, sperm-: Merriam-Webster
  3. sperm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sperm, sperm, sperm-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. -sperm, sperm, sperm-: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sperm: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sperm, sperm: Wordnik
  8. sperm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Sperm (cell): InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. sperm: Wiktionary
  11. -sperm, sperm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. -sperm, sperm: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. sperm: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. -sperm, sperm, sperm-: Dictionary.com
  15. sperm: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. sperm: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Sperm (album), Sperm (disambiguation), Sperm, The Sperm: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Sperm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. sperm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. sperm: Rhymezone
  21. sperm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. sperm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. sperm: FreeDictionary.org
  24. sperm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. sperm, sperm-: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sperm-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sperm: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. sperm: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Sperm: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Sperm: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hypermedia Glossary Of Genetic Terms (No longer online)
  7. sperm: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  8. sperm: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. -sperm, sperm, sperm-: Medical dictionary
  10. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Sperm: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)
  13. sperm(o)-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. SPERM: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sperm: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dairy Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See sperming as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable) The reproductive cell or gamete of the male; a spermatozoon.
noun:  (uncountable, slang) Semen; the generative substance of male animals.
noun:  (chemistry) Sperm oil; whale oil from a sperm whale; spermaceti.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate.
verb:  (transitive, slang, vulgar) To ejaculate on or into.

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