Usually means: Major branch of Islam, traditional.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word sunni:

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sunni: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of the Orient (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Muttaqun OnLine Islamic Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Sunni)

adjective:  Belonging or relating to the branch of Islam based on the Qur'an, the Kutub al-Sittah (the hadiths which record the Sunnah) and that places emphasis on the Sahabah.
noun:  A follower of Sunni Islam.
noun:  Ellipsis of Sunni Islam. [(Islam) The largest branch of Islam, followed by around 1.7 billion people, whose adherents believe that Muhammad died without appointing a successor, leading to the election of Abu Bakr as the legitimate leader of the Muslim community.]

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