Usually means: Law enforcement officer, county jurisdiction.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word sheriff:

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SHERIFF: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheriff: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. sheriff: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Sheriff: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sheriff: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  2. SHERIFF: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. sheriff: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Sheriff: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. The Sheriff, sheriff: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)

(Note: See sheriffdom as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (British, except Scotland) (High Sheriff) An official of a shire or county office, responsible for carrying out court orders, law enforcement and other duties.
noun:  (Scotland) A judge in the sheriff court, the court of a county or sheriffdom.
noun:  (US) A government official, usually responsible for law enforcement in their county and for administration of the county jail, sometimes an officer of the court, usually elected.
verb:  (transitive) To carry out the duties of a sheriff.
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation.

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