Usually means: Grasp meaning, comprehend, or interpret.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word understand:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. understand: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. understand: Merriam-Webster
  3. understand: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. understand: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. understand: Collins English Dictionary
  6. understand: Vocabulary.com
  7. Understand, under'stand, understand, understand: Wordnik
  8. understand: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. understand: Wiktionary
  10. understand: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. understand: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. understand: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. understand: Dictionary.com
  14. understand: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. understand: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Understand (Jeremy Camp song), Understand (disambiguation), Understand (software), Understand (story), Understand, Understand: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Understand: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. understand: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. understand: Rhymezone
  20. understand: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. understand: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. understand: FreeDictionary.org
  23. understand: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. understand: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. Understand: World Wide Words
  26. understand: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understand: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understand: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. understand: LITTLE EXPLORERS(TM) Picture Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Understand: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See understandability as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) (of communication or means of communication: words, statements, signs, etc.) To know the meaning of; to parse or have parsed correctly; to comprehend.
verb:  (transitive) (generally) To know the meaning of.
verb:  (transitive) (of a skill, task, profession, etc.) To be thoroughly familiar with; to be able to undertake properly.
verb:  (transitive, usually with clause as object) To comprehend a fact or principle; to regard or come to regard a belief as such.
verb:  (transitive) (of people) To know the intent, motives or character of; (of events) to know the causes of or reasons for.
verb:  (transitive) To believe or infer, to think one grasps sufficiently despite potentially incomplete knowledge.
verb:  (transitive, grammar) To regard as present when not.
verb:  (humorous, rare, obsolete outside circus, acrobatics) To stand underneath, to support.

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