Usually means: Distress signal for extreme emergency.
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  1. Mayday: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Mayday, mayday: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mayday: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. Mayday: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Mayday: Vocabulary.com
  6. Mayday, mayday: Wordnik
  7. mayday: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Mayday: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Mayday: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. mayday: Dictionary.com
  11. mayday: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. mayday: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  14. Mayday: Rhymezone
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  16. mayday: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. Mayday: The Word Detective
  18. mayday: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. Mayday: Merriam-Webster.com
  20. Mayday: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mayday: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MAYDAY: Acronym Finder

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Mayday: Sports Definitions

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  2. mayday: Chapters in the Sky
  3. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  4. MAYDAY, MAYDAY: Latitude Mexico

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noun:  An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft.
noun:  Alternative form of mayday [An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft.]

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