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General (30 matching dictionaries)

1. encounter: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. encounter, encounter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. encounter: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. encounter: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. encounter: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. encounter, encounter: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Encounter, encounter: Wordnik [home, info]
8. encounter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. encounter: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. encounter: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. encounter: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. encounter: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Encounter, encounter: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. encounter: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. encounter: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. encounter: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
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18. Encounter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. encounter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. encounter: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. encounter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. encounter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. encounter: Free Dictionary [home, info]
24. encounter: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
25. encounter: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
26. encounter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
27. encounter: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
28. encounter: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

29. encounter: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

30. encounter: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

31. encounter: online medical dictionary [home, info]
32. encounter: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

33. ENCOUNTER: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]

Science (1 matching dictionary)

34. Encounter: Extragalactic Astronomy [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (encounter) ▸ noun:  a casual meeting with a person of thing ▸ noun:  a hostile disagreement face-to-face ▸ noun:  a casual or unexpected convergence ("There was a brief encounter in the hallway") ▸ noun:  a minor short-term fight ▸ verb:  be beset by ▸ verb:  experience as a reaction ▸ verb:  contend against an opponent in a sport, game, or battle ▸ verb:  come together ▸ verb:  come upon, as if by accident; meet with ▸ Also see encounters ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to encounter ▸ Usage examples for encounter ▸ Idioms related to encounter (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing encounter ▸ Words that often appear near encounter ▸ Rhymes of encounter ▸ Invented words related to encounter