Usually means: Organ filtering blood, immune function.
Definitions Related words Phrases (New!) Mentions Lyrics History Colors (New!)
We found 51 dictionaries that define the word spleen:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. spleen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. spleen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spleen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spleen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spleen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spleen, spleen: Wordnik
  7. spleen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Spleen, Spleen: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. spleen: Wiktionary
  10. spleen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. spleen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. spleen: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. spleen: Dictionary.com
  14. spleen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Spleen (Chinese medicine), Spleen (disambiguation), Spleen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Spleen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. spleen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. spleen: Rhymezone
  19. Spleen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. spleen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. spleen: Free Dictionary
  22. spleen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. spleen: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spleen: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spleen: Encyclopedia

Medicine (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Spleen: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  3. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Spleen: Merck Manuals
  5. Digestive Diseases Dictionary (No longer online)
  6. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Spleen: Anatomy of the Human Body
  8. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  9. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  10. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  11. spleen: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  12. Allergy Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Multiple Sclerosis Encyclopaedia (No longer online)
  14. Spleen: Glossary of Lymphoma Terms
  15. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  16. spleen: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  17. spleen: Parents' Common Sense Encyclopedia
  18. spleen: Medical dictionary
  19. Spleen: Drug Medical Dictionary
  20. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spleen: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. The Spleen, spleen: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See spleening as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
)
American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (anatomy, immunology) In vertebrates, including humans, a ductless vascular gland, located in the left upper abdomen near the stomach, which destroys old red blood cells, removes debris from the bloodstream, acts as a reservoir of blood, and produces lymphocytes.
noun:  (archaic, except in the set phrase "to vent one's spleen") A bad mood; spitefulness. Compare gall.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) A sudden motion or action; a fit; a freak; a whim.
noun:  (obsolete) Melancholy; hypochondriacal affections.
noun:  A fit of immoderate laughter or merriment.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
verb:  To annoy or irritate.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To complain; to rail; to vent one's spleen.
verb:  To remove the spleen, or, by extension, to gore.
verb:  To excise or remove.

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    dark green,     olive,     mustard yellow,     deep red,     burgundy, more...



Word origin

Words similar to spleen

Usage examples for spleen

Idioms related to spleen

Wikipedia articles (New!)

Popular adjectives describing spleen

Words that often appear near spleen

Rhymes of spleen

Invented words related to spleen

Similar:

Opposite:

Types:

Phrases:

Adjectives:

Colors:
    dark green,     olive,     mustard yellow,     deep red,     burgundy, more...



Writing poetry or lyrics? You can find related words that match a given meter.
This feature is permanently available from the "Related words" tab and from the Thesaurus.





Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus   Datamuse   Compound Your Joy   Threepeat   Spruce   Feedback   Dark mode   Help


Our daily word games Threepeat and Compound Your Joy are going strong. Bookmark and enjoy!