Usually means: Colorful bird known for mimicking.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word parrot:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. parrot: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. parrot: Merriam-Webster
  3. parrot: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. parrot: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. parrot: Collins English Dictionary
  6. parrot: Vocabulary.com
  7. Parrot, parrot: Wordnik
  8. parrot: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Parrot, Parrot: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  10. Parrot, parrot: Wiktionary
  11. parrot: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  12. parrot: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  13. parrot: Infoplease Dictionary
  14. Parrot, parrot: Dictionary.com
  15. parrot: Online Etymology Dictionary
  16. parrot: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  17. Parrot (company), Parrot (disambiguation), Parrot: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  18. Parrot: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  19. parrot: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  20. parrot: Rhymezone
  21. parrot: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  22. parrot: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  23. parrot: FreeDictionary.org
  24. parrot: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. parrot: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. parrot: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parrot (order), parrot: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Parrot (order), parrot: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Parrot (order), parrot: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. PARROT: Acronym Finder
  2. parrot: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. parrot: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Parrot, The Parrot: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See parroted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A kind of bird, many species of which are colorful and able to mimic human speech, of the order Psittaciformes or (narrowly) of the family Psittacidae.
noun:  (figurative) A parroter; a person who repeats the words or ideas of others.
noun:  (archaic) A puffin.
noun:  (geology, obsolete) channel coal.
noun:  (aviation, slang) A transponder.
verb:  (transitive) To repeat (exactly what has just been said) without necessarily showing understanding, in the manner of a parrot.
noun:  A surname transferred from the given name.

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