Usually means: Possibility without certainty; conditional likelihood.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. maybe: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. maybe: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. maybe: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. maybe: Collins English Dictionary
  5. maybe: Vocabulary.com
  6. MAybe, Maybe, Maybe, maybe: Wordnik
  7. maybe: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. maybe: Wiktionary
  9. maybe: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. maybe: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. maybe: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Maybe, maybe: Dictionary.com
  13. maybe: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. maybe: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Maybe: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. maybe: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. maybe: Rhymezone
  19. maybe: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. maybe: Free Dictionary
  21. maybe: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. maybe: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. maybe: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. maybe: Sound Alike Words
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. MAYBE: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. maybe: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. maybe: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  Perhaps, possibly.
adverb:  (as a pro-sentence) Perhaps that is true (expressing no commitment to a decision or a neutral viewpoint to a statement).
adverb:  (UK, meiosis) Certainly.
adjective:  Possible; uncertain.
noun:  (informal) Something that is possibly true.
noun:  (informal) An answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement.
noun:  (informal) A future event that may or may not happen.

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