Usually means: Not married or in relationship.
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We found 54 dictionaries that define the word single:

General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. single: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. single: Merriam-Webster
  3. single: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. single: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. single: Collins English Dictionary
  6. single: Vocabulary.com
  7. Single: Wordnik
  8. single: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. single: Dictionary.com
  10. single (adj.), single (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. single: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Single (Natasha Bedingfield song), Single (William Wei song), Single (baseball), Single (cricket), Single (football), Single (locomotive), Single (music), Single (relationship), Single: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Single: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. single: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. single: Rhymezone
  16. Single (f), single, single, single (de): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. single: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. single: FreeDictionary.org
  19. single, single: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. single: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. single: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. single: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  23. single (ticket): Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  24. single: Wiktionary
  25. single: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  26. single: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  27. Single, single, single: Wordnik
  28. single: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. MSN Money (No longer online)
  4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  5. Single: Investopedia
  6. Single (disambiguation), single: Legal dictionary
  7. Single (disambiguation), Single: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Single (disambiguation), single: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. SINGLE: Acronym Finder
  2. single: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SINGLE: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. single, single, single: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Single: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. Single: A Seattle Lexicon

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Single: Bicycle Glossary
  3. Single: Sports Definitions

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See singled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Not accompanied by anything else; one in number.
adjective:  Not divided in parts.
adjective:  Designed for the use of only one.
adjective:  Performed by one person, or one on each side.
adjective:  Not married, and (in modern times) not dating or without a significant other.
adjective:  (botany) Having only one rank or row of petals.
adjective:  (obsolete) Simple and honest; sincere, without deceit.
adjective:  Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
adjective:  (obsolete) Simple; foolish; weak; silly.
noun:  (music) A 45 RPM vinyl record with one song on side A and one on side B.
noun:  (music) A popular song released and sold (on any format) nominally on its own though usually having at least one extra track.
noun:  One who is not married or does not have a romantic partner.
noun:  (cricket) A score of one run.
noun:  (baseball) A hit in baseball where the batter advances to first base.
noun:  (dominoes) A tile that has a different value (i.e. number of pips) at each end.
noun:  (US, informal) A bill valued at $1.
noun:  (UK) A one-way ticket.
noun:  (Canadian football) A score of one point, awarded when a kicked ball is dead within the non-kicking team's end zone or has exited that end zone.
noun:  (tennis, chiefly in the plural) A game with one player on each side, as in tennis.
noun:  One of the reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
noun:  (UK, Scotland, dialect) A handful of gleaned grain.
noun:  (computing, programming) A floating-point number having half the precision of a double-precision value.
noun:  (film) A shot of only one character.
noun:  A single cigarette.
noun:  (rail transport, obsolete) Synonym of single-driver.
verb:  (baseball) To get a hit that advances the batter exactly one base.
verb:  (agriculture) To thin out.
verb:  (of a horse) To take the irregular gait called singlefoot.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To take alone, or one by one; to single out.
verb:  (transitive) To reduce (a railway) to single track.
noun:  A surname from Old English.

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