Usually means: Remain suspended in air, stationary.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word hover:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. hover: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. hover: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hover: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hover: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hover: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hover, hover: Wordnik
  7. hover, hover (mower): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Hover, hover: Wiktionary
  9. hover: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hover: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hover: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hover, hover: Dictionary.com
  13. hover: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. hover: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Hover (disambiguation), Hover (domain registrar), Hover, Hover: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Hover: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. hover: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. hover: Rhymezone
  19. hover: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. hover: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. hover: Free Dictionary
  22. hover: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. hover: Dictionary/thesaurus

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. hover: Netlingo
  2. Hover: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  3. Hover (disambiguation), Hover: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hover: Idioms

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

(Note: See hovered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive)
verb:  To keep (something, such as an aircraft) in a stationary state in the air.
verb:  Of a bird: to shelter (chicks) under its body and wings; (by extension) of a thing: to cover or surround (something).
verb:  (obsolete) Of a bird or insect: to flap (its wings) so it can remain stationary in the air.
verb:  (intransitive)
verb:  To remain stationary or float in the air.
verb:  (figuratively)
verb:  Sometimes followed by over: to hang around or linger in a place, especially in an uncertain manner.
verb:  To be indecisive or uncertain; to vacillate, to waver.
verb:  (computing) Chiefly followed by over: to use a mouse or other device to place a cursor over something on a screen such as a hyperlink or icon without clicking, so as to produce a result (such as the appearance of a tooltip).
verb:  (nautical) To travel in a hovercraft as it moves above a water surface.
noun:  An act, or the state, of remaining stationary in the air or some other place.
noun:  A flock of birds fluttering in the air in one place.
noun:  (figuratively) An act, or the state, of being suspended; a suspension.
noun:  (chiefly Southern England) A cover; a protection; a shelter; specifically, an overhanging bank or stone under which fish can shelter; also, a shelter for hens brooding their eggs.
noun:  A surname.

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