Usually means: Strange or unusual; distinctly odd.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word peculiar:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. peculiar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. peculiar: Merriam-Webster
  3. peculiar, peculiar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. peculiar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. peculiar: Collins English Dictionary
  6. peculiar: Vocabulary.com
  7. Peculiar, peculiar: Wordnik
  8. peculiar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. peculiar: Wiktionary
  10. peculiar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. peculiar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. peculiar: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Peculiar, peculiar: Dictionary.com
  14. peculiar: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. peculiar: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Peculiar (album), Peculiar: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Peculiar: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. peculiar: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. peculiar: Rhymezone
  20. peculiar: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. peculiar: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Peculiar: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. peculiar: FreeDictionary.org
  24. peculiar: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. peculiar: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. peculiar: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. peculiar: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peculiar: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. peculiar: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Peculiar: Easton Bible
  2. PECULIAR: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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

(Note: See peculiarly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Out of the ordinary; odd; strange; unusual.
adjective:  Common or usual for a certain place or circumstance; specific or particular.
adjective:  (dated) One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not shared or possessed by others.
adjective:  (dated) Particular; individual; special; appropriate.
noun:  That which is peculiar; a sole or exclusive property; a prerogative; a characteristic.
noun:  (UK, canon law) an ecclesiastical district, parish, chapel or church outside the jurisdiction of the bishop of the diocese in which it is situated.

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