Usually means: Structure with triangular sides, apex.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word pyramid:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. pyramid: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. pyramid: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pyramid: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pyramid: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pyramid, pyramid: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pyramid, pyramid: Wordnik
  7. pyramid: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Pyramid, pyramid: Wiktionary
  9. pyramid: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pyramid: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pyramid: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. pyramid: Dictionary.com
  13. pyramid: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. pyramid: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Pyramid (Australian game show), Pyramid (Cannonball Adderley album), Pyramid (Charice), Pyramid (Charice song), Pyramid (Lee Konitz album), Pyramid (Modern Jazz Quartet album), Pyramid (The Alan Parsons Project album), Pyramid (band), Pyramid (brainstem), Pyramid (cigarette), Pyramid (disambiguation), Pyramid (drinking game), Pyramid (game show), Pyramid (geometry), Pyramid (image processing), Pyramid (magazine), Pyramid (solitaire), Pyramid (song), Pyramid (web framework), Pyramid, The Pyramid (Antarctica), The Pyramid (Golding), The Pyramid (Golding novel), The Pyramid (Kadare), The Pyramid (Kadare novel), The Pyramid (film), The Pyramid (short stories), The Pyramid (volcano), The Pyramid: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Pyramid: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. pyramid: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. Pyramid: Rhymezone
  19. pyramid: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. pyramid: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Pyramid: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Pyramid: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. pyramid: Free Dictionary
  24. pyramid: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. pyramid: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. pyramid: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pyramid: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Epicurus.com Cigar Glossary (No longer online)

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  4. pyramid: Legal dictionary
  5. Pyramid (finance), pyramid: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pyramid: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Pyramid: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  4. pyramid: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Pyramid: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. pyramid: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

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

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

(Note: See pyramidal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  An ancient massive construction with a square or rectangular base and four triangular sides meeting in an apex, such as those built as tombs in Egypt or as bases for temples in Mesoamerica.
noun:  A construction in the shape of a pyramid, usually with a square or rectangular base.
noun:  (geometry) A solid with triangular lateral faces and a polygonal (often square or rectangular) base.
noun:  (by extension) Any structure or diagram with many members at the bottom and progressively fewer towards the top.
noun:  (neuroanatomy) A medullary pyramid, the medial-most bumps on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata
noun:  (UK, dated) The game of pool in which the balls are placed in the form of a triangle at spot.
noun:  A pyramid scheme.
noun:  (card games) The triangular layout of cards in the game of Pyramid.
noun:  (journalism) An approximately triangular headline consisting of several centered lines of text of increasing length.
verb:  To build up or be arranged in the form of a pyramid.
verb:  (transitive, genetics) To combine (a series of genes) into a single genotype.
verb:  (intransitive) To employ, or take part in, a pyramid scheme.
verb:  (finance) To engage in pyramid trading.
verb:  (dated) To increase to or towards a peak.
noun:  (card games) A solitaire card game where the cards are arranged as a triangle (a "pyramid") and the object is to get the cards from the bottom to the top.
noun:  (card games, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pyramid. (a solitaire card game) [(card games) A solitaire card game where the cards are arranged as a triangle (a "pyramid") and the object is to get the cards from the bottom to the top.]

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