Usually means: Excessive pride in one's appearance.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word vanity:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. vanity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. vanity: Merriam-Webster
  3. vanity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. vanity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. vanity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. vanity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Vanity, vanity: Wordnik
  8. vanity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. vanity: Wiktionary
  10. vanity: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. vanity: Dictionary.com
  12. vanity: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. vanity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. The Vanity, Vanity (Titian), Vanity (album), Vanity (clothing), Vanity (comics), Vanity (disambiguation), Vanity (dressing-table), Vanity (performer), Vanity (singer), Vanity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Vanity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. vanity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. vanity: Rhymezone
  18. vanity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. vanity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. vanity: FreeDictionary.org
  21. vanity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. vanity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. vanity: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. vanity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  25. vanity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Vanity: Encyclopedia

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

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. vanity: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Vanity: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See vanities as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  That which is vain, futile, or worthless; that which is of no value, use or profit.
noun:  Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own abilities, appearance, achievements, or possessions.
noun:  A dressing table used to apply makeup, preen, and coif hair, in which the table is normally quite low and similar to a desk.
noun:  A washbasin installed into a permanently fixed storage unit, used as an item of bathroom furniture.
noun:  (obsolete) Any idea, theory or statement that is without foundation.
noun:  A female given name.

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