Usually means: Framework supporting body; bones structure.
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We found 53 dictionaries that define the word skeleton:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. skeleton: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. skeleton: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. skeleton: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. skeleton: Collins English Dictionary
  5. skeleton: Vocabulary.com
  6. Skeleton, skeleton: Wordnik
  7. skeleton: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Skeleton (anterior view), Skeleton (lateral view): InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. skeleton: Wiktionary
  10. skeleton: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. skeleton: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. skeleton: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. skeleton: Dictionary.com
  14. skeleton: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. skeleton: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Skeleton(sport), Skeleton (Donghae & Eunhyuk song), Skeleton (Figurines album), Skeleton (anatomy), Skeleton (category theory), Skeleton (computer programming), Skeleton (disambiguation), Skeleton (sport), Skeleton (undead), Skeleton: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Skeleton: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. skeleton: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. skeleton: Rhymezone
  20. skeleton: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. skeleton: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. skeleton: Free Dictionary
  23. skeleton: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. skeleton: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. skeleton: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. Skeleton: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skeleton (anatomy), skeleton: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skeleton (anatomy), Skeleton (sport), skeleton: Encyclopedia

Medicine (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Skeleton: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Skeleton: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Skeleton: Gray's Anatomy (1918)
  9. skeleton: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  10. skeleton: Medical Etymology Anatomy
  11. Skeleton (anatomy), skeleton: Medical dictionary
  12. Skeleton: Drug Medical Dictionary
  13. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. skeleton: Idioms

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Skeleton: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. skeleton, skeleton: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  4. skeleton: Natural History Terms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Skeleton: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Skeleton (Of a vessel): Latitude Mexico

(Note: See skeletonic as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy) The system that provides support to an organism, internal and made up of bones and cartilage in vertebrates, external in some other animals.
noun:  An anthropomorphic representation of a skeleton.
noun:  (figuratively) A very thin person.
noun:  (figuratively) The central core of something that gives shape to the entire structure.
noun:  (architecture) A frame that provides support to a building or other construction.
noun:  (computing, middleware) A client-helper procedure that communicates with a stub.
noun:  (geometry) The vertices and edges of a polyhedron, taken collectively.
noun:  (printing) A very thin form of light-faced type.
noun:  (especially attributive) A minimum or bare essentials.
noun:  (botany) The network of veins in a leaf.
verb:  (archaic) To reduce to a skeleton; to skin; to skeletonize.
verb:  (archaic) To minimize.
noun:  (sports, uncountable) A type of tobogganing in which competitors lie face down, and descend head first.
noun:  (idiomatic) Clipping of skeleton in the closet (“a shameful secret”). [(US, idiomatic) A shameful secret.]

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