Usually means: Group of musicians playing together.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. band: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Band, band, band: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. band, band: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. band: Collins English Dictionary
  5. band: Vocabulary.com
  6. Band, band, band: Wordnik
  7. band: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. band: Wiktionary
  9. band: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. band: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. band: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. band: Dictionary.com
  13. band (1), band (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. band: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. BAND (software), Band (algebra), Band (anthropology), Band (channel), Band (mathematics), Band (music), Band (radio), Band (rock and pop), Band (software), Band, The Band (album), The Band (band), The Band (film), The Band (musical), The Band (professional wrestling), The Band, The band: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Band: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. band: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. band: Rhymezone
  19. Band (f), Band (nt), band, band (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. band: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. band: Free Dictionary
  22. band: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. band: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. band: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  2. band: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Band, band: CCI Computer
  2. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Band (radio), band: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Orthodontic Terms (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  5. band: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. BAND: Acronym Finder
  3. band: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Band: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chemistry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Band: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. General Chemistry Online (No longer online)
  5. band: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  6. band: Anthropological Terms
  7. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. band, band, band: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Band: The Folk File
  3. the band: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

Tech (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. band: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  5. Glossary of video terms (No longer online)
  6. BAND: NOISE CONTROL TERMS
  7. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  8. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  9. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See banded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A strip of material used for strengthening or coupling.
noun:  A strip of material wrapped around things to hold them together.
noun:  A narrow strip of cloth or other material on clothing, to bind, strengthen, or ornament it.
noun:  A strip along the spine of a book where the pages are attached.
noun:  A belt or strap that is part of a machine.
noun:  A long strip of material, color, etc, that is different from the surrounding area.
noun:  (architecture) A strip of decoration.
noun:  A continuous tablet, stripe, or series of ornaments, as of carved foliage, of colour, or of brickwork.
noun:  In Gothic architecture, the moulding, or suite of mouldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.
noun:  That which serves as the means of union or connection between persons; a tie.
noun:  A linen collar or ruff worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
noun:  (in the plural) Two strips of linen hanging from the neck in front as part of a clerical, legal, or academic dress.
noun:  (physics) A part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
noun:  (physics) A group of energy levels in a solid state material.
noun:  (obsolete) A bond.
noun:  (obsolete) Pledge; security.
noun:  (especially US) A ring, such as a wedding ring (wedding band), or a ring put on a bird's leg to identify it.
noun:  (sciences) Any distinguishing line formed by chromatography, electrophoresis etc
noun:  (slang, hiphop, often in the plural) A wad of money totaling $1K, held together by a band; (by extension) $1000, a grand; (by extension) money
verb:  (transitive) To fasten with a band.
verb:  (transitive, ornithology) To fasten an identifying band around the leg of (a bird).
noun:  A group of musicians who perform together as an ensemble, usually for a professional recording artist.
noun:  A type of orchestra originally playing janissary music.
noun:  A marching band.
noun:  A group of people loosely united for a common purpose, e.g., a band of thieves.
noun:  (anthropology) A small group of people living in a simple society, contrasted with tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
noun:  (Canada) A group of aboriginals that has official recognition as an organized unit by the federal government of Canada.
verb:  (intransitive) To group together for a common purpose; to confederate.
verb:  (transitive, education) To group (students) together by perceived ability; to stream.
noun:  A surname from German.
noun:  (medicine) Short for band cell. [A cell undergoing granulopoiesis, derived from a metamyelocyte, and leading to a mature granulocyte; it is characterized by having a nucleus that is curved but not lobar.]
verb:  Obsolete form of bandy. [(transitive) To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.]

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