Usually means: Applicable to a general category.
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We found 51 dictionaries that define the word generic:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. generic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. generic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. generic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. generic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. generic: Vocabulary.com
  6. generic: Wordnik
  7. generic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. generic: Wiktionary
  9. generic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. generic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. generic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. generic: Dictionary.com
  13. generic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. generic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Generic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Generic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. generic: Rhymezone
  18. Generic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. generic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. generic: Free Dictionary
  21. generic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. generic: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. generic: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Generic: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  6. generic: Legal dictionary
  7. Generic: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. generic: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  2. generic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Generic: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  4. AIDSinfo Glossary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Generic: GLOSSARY OF ALLERGY TERMS
  7. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  8. DICTIONARY OF TERMS IN ORAL PHYSIOLOGY (No longer online)
  9. generic: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. generic: Medical dictionary
  11. Generic: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. generic: A Word A Day

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -generic, generic, generic: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. generic: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. generic: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Very broad; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups as opposed to specific instances.
adjective:  lacking in precision, often in an evasive fashion; vague; imprecise
adjective:  (of a product or drug) not having a brand name; nonproprietary in design or contents; fungible with the rest of its class.
adjective:  (taxonomy) Pertaining to genera of life instead of particular species thereof.
adjective:  Relating to gender.
adjective:  (grammar, nonstandard) specifying neither masculine nor feminine; epicene; unisex.
adjective:  (computing, of procedures) Written so as to operate on any data type, the type required being passed as a parameter.
adjective:  (geometry, of a point) Having coordinates that are algebraically independent over the base field.
adjective:  Relating to genre.
noun:  A product sold under a generic name.
noun:  A wine that is a combination of several wines, or made from a combination of several grape varieties.
noun:  (grammar) A term that specifies neither male nor female.
noun:  (toponymy) The part of a toponym that identifies the feature's type.

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