We found 32 dictionaries that define the word white elephant:

General (23 matching dictionaries)

1. white elephant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
2. white elephant: Merriam-Webster
3. white elephant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
4. white elephant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
5. white elephant: Collins English Dictionary
6. white elephant: Vocabulary.com
7. white-elephant, white elephant: Wordnik
8. white elephant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
9. white elephant: Wiktionary
10. white elephant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
11. white elephant: Infoplease Dictionary
12. white elephant: Dictionary.com
13. white elephant: Online Etymology Dictionary
14. The White Elephant, White Elephant, White elephant (animal), White elephant (disambiguation), White elephant (pachyderm), White elephant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
15. white elephant: Rhymezone
16. White Elephant: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
17. white elephant: FreeDictionary.org
18. white elephant: Mnemonic Dictionary
19. White Elephant: The Word Detective
20. white elephant: TheFreeDictionary.com
21. White elephant: Phrase Finder

Business (4 matching dictionaries)

22. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
23. White Elephant: Investopedia
24. white elephant: Financial dictionary
25. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

26. white elephant: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

27. Political (No longer online)
28. white elephant, white elephant: A Word A Day
29. white elephant: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

30. White-Elephant, white elephant: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (white elephant) ▸ noun:  An albino elephant. ▸ noun:  (idiomatic) A possession that is unwanted or is a financial burden; an unprofitable investment. Similar: cow elephant, bull elephant, elephantess, he-elephant, sea elephant, elephant, she-elephant, elephant's teeth, rogue elephant, water elephant, more... Opposite: useful, valuable, practical, functional, beneficial Types: useless, unwanted, unneeded, unappreciated, undesirable, more... Phrases: white elephant sale, White elephant gift exchange, white elephant exchange, more... Adjectives: kangaroo, ermine, sable, tragelaphine, bluetail, reduncine, galliform, pavonian, pavonine, strigine, halcyon ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to white elephant ▸ Usage examples for white elephant ▸ Idioms related to white elephant ▸ Wikipedia articles (New!) ▸ Words that often appear near white elephant ▸ Rhymes of white elephant ▸ Invented words related to white elephant