Jump to: General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, Phrases 

We found 57 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word authority:
Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "authority" is defined.

General (32 matching dictionaries)

1. authority: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. authority, authority: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. authority: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. authority: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. authority: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. authority: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Authority, authority: Wordnik [home, info]
8. authority: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. authority: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. authority: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. authority: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. authority: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. authority: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. authority: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. authority: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. authority: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. authority: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
18. Authority (His Dark Materials), Authority (album), Authority (comics), Authority (disambiguation), Authority (management), Authority (novel), Authority (sociology), Authority (textual criticism), Authority, The Authority (His Dark Materials), The Authority (comics), The Authority (newspaper), The Authority (professional wrestling), The Authority: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. Authority: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. authority: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. authority: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. authority: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. authority: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
24. AUTHORITY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) [home, info]
25. authority: Free Dictionary [home, info]
26. authority: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
27. authority: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
28. authority: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
29. authority: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
30. authority: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

31. authority: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business (11 matching dictionaries)

32. authority: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
33. authority: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
34. authority: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
35. Authority: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
36. authority: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
37. AUTHORITY: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
38. authority: Nelson Political Science Glossary [home, info]
39. authority: Legal dictionary [home, info]
40. Authority: Financial dictionary [home, info]
41. Authority: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary [home, info]
42. authority: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

43. Authority: Cybernetics and Systems [home, info]
44. authority: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

45. authority: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)

46. authority: Sociology [home, info]
47. authority: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
48. authority: A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education [home, info]
49. authority: Idioms [home, info]
50. authority: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy [home, info]

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

51. AUTHORITY: Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion [home, info]

Science (1 matching dictionary)

52. authority: Archaeology Wordsmith [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

53. authority: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

54. Authority: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]
55. authority: Search Engine Dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See authoritys for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (authority) ▸ noun:  official permission or approval ("Authority for the program was renewed several times") ▸ noun:  the power or right to give orders or make decisions ("He has the authority to issue warrants") ▸ noun:  an authoritative written work ("This book is the final authority on the life of Milton") ▸ noun:  an expert whose views are taken as definitive ("He is an authority on corporate law") ▸ noun:  (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others ▸ noun:  freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities ("She spoke with authority") ▸ noun:  an administrative unit of government ("Tennessee Valley Authority") ▸ Also see authoritys ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to authority ▸ Usage examples for authority ▸ Popular adjectives describing authority ▸ Words that often appear near authority ▸ Rhymes of authority ▸ Invented words related to authority