Usually means: Mandatory church tax on earnings.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tithe: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tithe: Merriam-Webster
  3. tithe, tithe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tithe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tithe: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tithe: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tithe, tithe: Wordnik
  8. tithe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tithe: Wiktionary
  10. tithe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tithe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tithe: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tithe: Dictionary.com
  14. tithe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Tithe: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tithe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tithe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tithe: Rhymezone
  19. Tithe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tithe: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tithe: FreeDictionary.org
  22. tithe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tithe: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TITHE: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tithe: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tithe: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. TITHE, TITHE, TITHE: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. tithe: Genealogy Glossary

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tithe: Easton Bible
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Tithe: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

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

(Note: See tithed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (archaic) A tenth.
noun:  (historical) The tenth part of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock, allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to religious or charitable uses; a tax taking ten percent of land or stock profits, used for religious or charitable purposes.
noun:  A contribution to one's religious community or congregation of worship (notably to the LDS church).
noun:  A small part or proportion.
adjective:  (archaic) Tenth.
verb:  To give one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
verb:  (transitive) To pay something as a tithe.
verb:  (transitive) To pay a tithe upon something.
verb:  (intransitive) To pay a tithe; to pay a 10% tax
verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To pay or offer as a levy in the manner of a tithe or religious tax.
verb:  To take one-tenth or a tithe of something, particularly:
verb:  (transitive) To impose a tithe upon someone or something.
verb:  (transitive) To spare only every tenth person, killing the rest (usually in relation to the sacking of the episcopal seat at Canterbury by the pagan Danes in 1011).
verb:  (transitive) To enforce or collect a tithe upon someone or something.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To decimate: to kill every tenth person, usually as a military punishment.
verb:  (intransitive) To enforce or collect a tithe.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To compose the tenth part of something.

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