Usually means: Line of longitude on Earth.
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We found 47 dictionaries that define the word meridian:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Meridian, meridian: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Meridian, meridian: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Meridian, meridian: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. meridian: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Meridian, meridian: Vocabulary.com
  6. Meridian, meridian: Wordnik
  7. meridian: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Meridian, meridian: Wiktionary
  9. meridian: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. meridian: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. meridian: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. meridian: Dictionary.com
  13. meridian: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. meridian: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Meridian (Amtrak station), Meridian (Chinese medicine), Meridian (DS9 episode), Meridian (Stargate SG-1), Meridian (TCM), Meridian (astronomy), Meridian (comics), Meridian (commuter rail), Meridian (disambiguation), Meridian (film), Meridian (geography), Meridian (horse), Meridian (novel), Meridian (satellite), Meridian (shipwreck), Meridian: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Meridian: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. meridian: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. meridian: Rhymezone
  19. Meridian: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. meridian: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Meridian: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. meridian: Free Dictionary
  23. meridian: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Meridian: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  2. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Meridian (city), Meridian (disambiguation), meridian: Legal dictionary
  2. Meridian (PLSS), Meridian (city), Meridian (disambiguation), Meridian (surveyal), meridian: Financial dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Meridian (astronomy), Meridian (city), Meridian (disambiguation), Meridian (surveyal), meridian: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. meridian: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  4. Meridian (city), Meridian (disambiguation), Meridian: Medical dictionary
  5. Vitamin Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MERIDIAN: Masonic Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Meridian: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Meridian: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Meridian: Extragalactic Astronomy

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Meridian, The Meridian: Urban Dictionary

Tech (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. MERIDIAN: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  4. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  5. Meridian, Meridian: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See meridians as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Relating to a meridian (in various senses); meridional.
adjective:  (archaic except literary) Relating to midday or noon.
adjective:  (obsolete)
adjective:  Relating to the culmination or highest point.
adjective:  Relating to the south; meridional, southern.
noun:  (astronomy)
noun:  In full celestial meridian: a great circle passing through the poles of the celestial sphere and the zenith for a particular point on the Earth's surface.
noun:  (also geography) In full terrestrial meridian: a great circle on the Earth's surface, passing through the geographic poles (the terrestrial North Pole and South Pole); also, half of such a circle extending from pole to pole, all points of which have the same longitude.
noun:  (by extension)
noun:  The place on the celestial meridian where it is crossed by the sun or a star at its highest point.
noun:  (figuratively) The highest or most developed point, or most splendid stage, of something; culmination, peak, zenith.
noun:  (figuratively, specifically) Chiefly followed by of: the middle period of someone's life, when they are at their full abilities or strength; one's prime.
noun:  A ring or half-ring with markings in which an artificial globe is installed and may spin.
noun:  (mathematics) A line passing through the poles of any sphere; a notional line on the surface of a curved or round body (in particular, an eyeball).
noun:  (US, printing, dated) The size of type between double great primer and canon, standardized as 44-point.
noun:  (obsolete)
noun:  The south.
noun:  Midday, noon.
noun:  A midday rest; a siesta.
noun:  A particular area or situation considered as having a specific characteristic or identity; also, the characteristics, habits, or tastes of a specific group, locale, etc.
noun:  (Scotland) An alcoholic drink taken at midday.
verb:  (transitive) To cause an object to reach the meridian or highest point of (something).
verb:  (intransitive) Of a celestial body: to reach its meridian.
noun:  (acupuncture, traditional Chinese medicine) Any of the pathways on the body along which chi or qi (life force) is thought to flow and, therefore, the acupoints are distributed; especially, one of twelve such pathways associated with organs of the body.
noun:  A ghost town in Humboldt County, California.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Kern County, California.
noun:  A neighborhood of San Jose, Santa Clara County, California.
noun:  A census-designated place in Sutter County, California, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Douglas County, Colorado.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Leon County, Florida.
noun:  An unincorporated community in McIntosh County, Georgia.
noun:  A sizable city in Ada County, Idaho.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Lauderdale County, Mississippi, United States.
noun:  A ghost town in Jefferson County, Nebraska.
noun:  A village in Cayuga County, New York.
noun:  A town in Logan County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A census-designated place in Stephens County, Oklahoma.
noun:  A census-designated place in Butler County, Pennsylvania.
noun:  A city, the county seat of Bosque County, Texas, United States, apparently named for the 98th meridian west, actually between 97-98 W.
noun:  A neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, also known as Tangletown.

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