Usually means: Circumstances forming background of events.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word context:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. context: Merriam-Webster
  2. context: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. context: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. context: Collins English Dictionary
  5. context: Vocabulary.com
  6. Context, context: Wordnik
  7. context: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. context: Wiktionary
  9. context: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. context: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. context: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Context, context: Dictionary.com
  13. context: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. context: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ConTEXT, ConTeXt, Context (archaeology), Context (computing), Context (disambiguation), Context (language use), Context (literary), Context (mycology), Context: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Context: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. context: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. context: Rhymezone
  19. context, context (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. context: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. context: FreeDictionary.org
  22. context: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. context: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. context: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. context: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. context: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. context: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Context: Cybernetics and Systems
  3. I T Glossary (No longer online)
  4. context: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. context: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. context: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. context: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website
  2. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  3. Context: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  4. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  5. Context: Underwater Archaeology Glossary
  6. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)
  7. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. context: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The surroundings, circumstances, environment, background or settings that determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event or other occurrence.
noun:  (linguistics) The text in which a word or passage appears and which helps ascertain its meaning.
noun:  (archaeology) The surroundings and environment in which an artifact is found and which may provide important clues about the artifact's function and/or cultural meaning.
noun:  (mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
noun:  (logic) For a formula: a finite set of variables, which set contains all the free variables in the given formula.
noun:  (programming) The data (register contents, program counter value, etc.) needed to switch to another thread of execution.
verb:  (obsolete) To knit or bind together; to unite closely.
adjective:  (obsolete) Knit or woven together; close; firm.

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