Usually means: Create or form by arrangement.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word compose:

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

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. compose: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. compose: Legal dictionary
  2. compose: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compose: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. compose: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. COMPOSE: Acronym Finder

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To make something by merging parts.
verb:  (transitive) To make up the whole; to constitute.
verb:  (transitive, nonstandard) To comprise.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To construct by mental labor; to think up; particularly, to produce or create a literary or musical work.
verb:  (sometimes reflexive) To calm; to free from agitation.
verb:  To arrange the elements of a photograph or other picture.
verb:  To settle (an argument, dispute etc.); to come to a settlement.
verb:  To arrange in proper form; to reduce to order; to put in proper state or condition.
verb:  (printing, dated) To arrange (types) in a composing stick for printing; to typeset.

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