Usually means: Ending part of a word.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word suffix:

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

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Suffix: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Suffix: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Suffix (linguistics), suffix: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suffix: Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
  2. Suffix (computer science): Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suffix: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Suffix: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

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

(Note: See suffixal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (grammar, linguistic morphology) A morpheme added at the end of a word to modify the word's meaning.
noun:  (mathematics) A subscript.
noun:  (computing) A final segment of a string of characters.
verb:  (transitive) To append (something) to the end of something else.

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