Usually means: Acknowledge existence, validity, or legality.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word recognize:

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

Business (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. recognize: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. recognize: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognize: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognize: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognize: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Recognize: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. recognize: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To match (something or someone which one currently perceives) to a memory of some previous encounter with the same person or thing.
verb:  (transitive) To acknowledge the existence or legality of; to treat as valid or worthy of consideration.
verb:  (transitive, or with clause) To acknowledge or consider (as being a certain thing or having a certain quality or property).
verb:  (transitive) To realize or discover the nature of something; apprehend quality in.
verb:  (transitive) To show formal appreciation of, as with an award, commendation etc.
verb:  (obsolete) To review; to examine again.
verb:  (obsolete) To reconnoiter.
verb:  (immunology) To have the property to bind to specific antigens.
verb:  to cognize again

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