Usually means: Conforming to fact or truth.
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  1. correct: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. correct: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. correct: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. correct: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Correct, correct: Wordnik
  6. correct: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. correct: Wiktionary
  8. correct: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. correct: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. correct: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. correct: Dictionary.com
  12. correct (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. correct: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Correct: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Correct: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. correct: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. correct: Rhymezone
  18. correct, correct: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. correct: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. correct: Free Dictionary
  21. correct: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. correct: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. correct: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. correct: Vocabulary.com

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  1. correct: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. correct: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. correct: Idioms

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Free from error; true; accurate.
adjective:  With good manners; well behaved; conforming with accepted standards of behaviour.
adverb:  Correctly.
noun:  A correct response.
verb:  (transitive) To make something that was wrong become right; to remove error from.
verb:  (by extension, transitive) To grade (examination papers).
verb:  (transitive) To inform (someone) of their error.
verb:  (transitive) To discipline; to punish.

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