Usually means: Reason for existence or creation.
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We found 39 dictionaries that define the word purpose:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. purpose: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. purpose: Merriam-Webster
  3. purpose: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. purpose: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. purpose: Collins English Dictionary
  6. purpose: Vocabulary.com
  7. Purpose, purpose: Wordnik
  8. purpose: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. purpose: Wiktionary
  10. purpose: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. purpose: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. purpose: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. purpose: Dictionary.com
  14. purpose: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. purpose: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Purpose (Algebra album), Purpose (Justin Bieber album), Purpose (Taeyeon album), Purpose (disambiguation), Purpose (film), Purpose: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Purpose: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. purpose: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. purpose: Rhymezone
  20. purpose: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. purpose: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. purpose: FreeDictionary.org
  23. purpose: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. purpose: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. purpose: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. purpose: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. purpose: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Purpose: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. purpose: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. purpose: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Purpose: Underwater Archaeology Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. purpose: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See purposed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The end for which something is done, is made or exists.
noun:  Function, role.
noun:  (Sense of having a) meaning for existing or doing something.
noun:  Resolution; determination.
noun:  (obsolete) The subject of discourse; the point at issue.
verb:  (transitive) To have or set as one's purpose or aim; resolve to accomplish; intend; plan.
verb:  (intransitive) To have (an) intention, purpose, or design; to intend; to mean.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To discourse.

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