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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word ly:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. ly: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. -ly, ly-: Merriam-Webster
  3. -ly, -ly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. -ly, ly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. LY, Ly, -ly, l'y, ly, ly, lY: Wordnik
  6. -ly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Ly, -ly, ly, ly-: Wiktionary
  8. -ly, ly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. -ly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. -ly: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. -ly, .ly, ly: Dictionary.com
  12. Ly (surname), Ly, -ly, .ly: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. -ly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. Ly: Rhymezone
  15. ly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. -ly, ly: MyWord.info
  17. -ly, .ly, ly: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  18. ly: FreeDictionary.org
  19. ly: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ly-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. LY: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  3. LY: Financial dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ly: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. LY: Netlingo
  3. LY: CCI Computer
  4. -ly, ly: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LY: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ly: A Dictionary of Quaternary Acronyms and Abbreviations

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A surname from Vietnamese.
noun:  (astronomy) Abbreviation of light year. [(astronomy) A unit of length (abbreviation ly; equal to just under 10 trillion kilometres (10¹⁶ metres)) equal to the distance light travels in one Julian year; used to measure extremely large distances.]
noun:  (astronomy, countable) Alternative spelling of ly; light-year
noun:  (uncountable) Initialism of lethal yellowing. [A phytoplasma disease that attacks many species of palm tree.]

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