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We found 40 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word literal:
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General (30 matching dictionaries)

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

Art (2 matching dictionaries)

29. literal: Literary Criticism [home, info]
30. literal: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

31. Literal (disambiguation), literal: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)

32. literal: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
33. literal: CCI Computer [home, info]
34. literal: Webopedia [home, info]
35. Literal (disambiguation), literal: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

36. literal: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

37. Literal: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics [home, info]
38. literal: PlanetMath Encyclopedia [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (literal) ▸ noun:  a mistake in printed matter resulting from mechanical failures of some kind ▸ adjective:  limited to the explicit meaning of a word or text ("A literal translation") ▸ adjective:  of the clearest kind; usually used for emphasis ("It's the literal truth") ▸ adjective:  lacking stylistic embellishment ("A literal description") ▸ adjective:  without interpretation or embellishment ("A literal translation of the scene before him") ▸ adjective:  (of a translation) corresponding word for word with the original ("Literal translation of the article") ▸ adjective:  being or reflecting the essential or genuine character of something ("A literal solitude like a desert- G.K.Chesterton") ▸ Also see literals ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to literal ▸ Usage examples for literal ▸ Idioms related to literal (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing literal ▸ Popular nouns described by literal ▸ Words that often appear near literal ▸ Rhymes of literal ▸ Invented words related to literal