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General (35 matching dictionaries)

1. about: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. about: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. about: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. about: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. about: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. about: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. ABout, About, about, about, about, about, about, about, about: Wordnik [home, info]
8. about: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. about: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. about: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. about: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. about: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. About, about: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. about: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. about: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. about: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. about: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
18. AbOUT, About (disambiguation), About (surname), About: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. about: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
20. About: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
21. about: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
22. about: Rhymezone [home, info]
23. about: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
24. about: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
25. about: MyWord.info [home, info]
26. About: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
27. about: Free Dictionary [home, info]
28. about: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
29. about: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
30. about: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
31. about: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
32. About: UVic Writer's Guide [home, info]
33. about: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

34. About: Epicurus.com Coffee Glossary [home, info]
35. About: Eastern Philosophy [home, info]

Business (2 matching dictionaries)

36. ABouT: Abbreviations in shipping [home, info]
37. about: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

38. about: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

39. ABOUT: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
40. about: Idioms [home, info]
41. About: Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

42. about: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

43. About: Search Engine Dictionary [home, info]
44. about: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (about) ▸ adverb:  in the area or vicinity ("A few spectators standing about") ▸ adverb:  all around or on all sides ("Dirty clothes lying around (or about)") ▸ adverb:  in or to a reversed position or direction ("About face") ▸ adverb:  to or among many different places or in no particular direction ("Wandering about with no place to go") ▸ adverb:  (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; `near' is sometimes used informally for `nearly' and `most' is sometimes used informally for `almost' ("The job is (just) about done") ▸ adverb:  in rotation or succession ("Turn about is fair play") ▸ adverb:  (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct ("In just about a minute") ▸ Also see abouts ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to about ▸ Usage examples for about ▸ Idioms related to about (New!) ▸ Words that often appear near about ▸ Rhymes of about ▸ Invented words related to about