Usually means: Word or phrase altering another's meaning.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word modifier:

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

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spirits Glossary (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Modifier: Lexicon of Linguistics

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. modifier: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. modifier: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. modifier: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. modifier: Medical dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. modifier: Lighting Design Glossary

(Note: See modifiers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who, or that which, modifies.
noun:  (grammar) A word, phrase, or clause that limits or qualifies the sense of another word or phrase. (It may be any of the following: an adjective phrase, an adverb phrase, a prepositional phrase, a noun phrase, or a subordinate clause.)
noun:  (programming) A keyword that qualifies the meaning of other code.
noun:  (computing) Short for modifier key. [(computing) A key (on a computer keyboard) that may be pressed simultaneously with certain other keys to activate predefined functions.]

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