We found 30 dictionaries that define the word encourage:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

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

Business (1 matching dictionary)

25. encourage: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

26. encourage: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

27. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

28. encourage: Idioms

(Note: See encouraged as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary ( ) ▸ verb:  To mentally support; to motivate, give courage, hope or spirit. ▸ verb:  To spur on, strongly recommend. ▸ verb:  To foster, give help or patronage. Similar: further, advance, promote, boost, discourage, inspire, allow, enable, incentivize, motivate, more... Opposite: discourage, deter, dissuade, inhibit, dishearten Types: support, boost, uplift, inspire, motivate, stimulate, more... Phrases: strongly encourage, encourage gently, encourage through persuasion, to encourage, to encourage or persuade, more... Colors:     yellow,     orange,     green,     blue,     gold, more... ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to encourage ▸ Usage examples for encourage ▸ Idioms related to encourage ▸ Wikipedia articles (New!) ▸ Words that often appear near encourage ▸ Rhymes of encourage ▸ Invented words related to encourage