Usually means: Soft, luxurious fabric with pile.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word velvet:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. velvet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Velvet, velvet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. velvet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. velvet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. velvet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Velvet, velvet: Wordnik
  7. velvet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. velvet: Wiktionary
  9. velvet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. velvet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. velvet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. velvet: Dictionary.com
  13. velvet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. velvet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. The Velvet, Velvet (Adam Lambert album), Velvet (EP), Velvet (Savoy song), Velvet (Side A), Velvet (Sirius XM), Velvet (TV channel), Velvet (TV series), Velvet (The Big Pink song), Velvet (Wink album), Velvet (album), Velvet (antler covering), Velvet (comics), Velvet (disambiguation), Velvet (dog), Velvet (film), Velvet (fish disease), Velvet (magazine), Velvet (musical), Velvet (singer), Velvet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Velvet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. velvet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. velvet: Rhymezone
  19. Velvet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. velvet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. velvet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. velvet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. velvet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. velvet: Free Dictionary
  25. Velvet: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Velvet (antler covering), Velvet (fabric), Velvet (plant), velvet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Velvet (antler covering), Velvet (fabric), Velvet (plant), velvet: Medical dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. velvet: Idioms
  2. baby names list (No longer online)
  3. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. velvet, velvet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Velvet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Fabric Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See velveting as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A closely woven fabric (originally of silk, now also of cotton or man-made fibres) with a thick short pile on one side.
noun:  Very fine fur, including the skin and fur on a deer's antlers.
noun:  (rare, countable) A female chinchilla; a sow.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) The drug dextromethorphan.
noun:  (slang, uncountable) Money acquired by gambling.
verb:  To cover with velvet or with a covering of a similar texture.
verb:  (cooking) To coat raw meat in starch, then in oil, preparatory to frying.
verb:  To remove the velvet from a deer's antlers.
verb:  (figurative, transitive) To soften; to mitigate.
verb:  (of a cat's claws) to retract.
adjective:  Made of velvet.
adjective:  Soft and delicate, like velvet; velvety.
adjective:  (politics) Peaceful; carried out without violence; especially as pertaining to the peaceful breakup of Czechoslovakia.

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