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General (33 matching dictionaries)

1. dear: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. dear: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. dear, dear: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. dear: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. dear: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. dear, dear, dear, dear: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Dear, dear: Wordnik [home, info]
8. dear: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. Dear, dear: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. dear: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. dear: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. dear: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Dear, dear: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. dear: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. dear: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. dear: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. dear: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
18. DEAR (Hey! Say! JUMP Album), DEAR (Hey! Say! JUMP album), DEAR, Dear... (disambiguation), Dear (Apink album), Dear (Boris album), Dear (Hey! Say! JUMP album), Dear (manga), Dear: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. Dear: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. dear: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. dear: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. dear: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. dear: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
24. dear: All About Homonyms [home, info]
25. Dear: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
26. dear: Free Dictionary [home, info]
27. dear: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
28. dear: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
29. Dear, dear: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
30. dear: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
31. dear: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art (1 matching dictionary)

32. DEAR: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]

Business (1 matching dictionary)

33. dear: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

34. dear: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

35. dear: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

36. DEAR: Acronym Finder [home, info]
37. DEAR: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
38. dear: Idioms [home, info]

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

39. Dear: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook [home, info]
40. dear: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

41. DEAR: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (dear) ▸ noun:  a beloved person; used as terms of endearment ▸ noun:  a sweet innocent mild-mannered person (especially a child) ▸ adjective:  earnest ("One's dearest wish") ▸ adjective:  with or in a close or intimate relationship ("My sisters and brothers are near and dear") ▸ adjective:  dearly loved ▸ adverb:  at a great cost ("He paid dearly for the food") ▸ adverb:  with affection ("She loved him dearly") ▸ name:  A surname (rare: 1 in 50000 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #6498) ▸ Also see dears ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to dear ▸ Usage examples for dear ▸ Idioms related to dear (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing dear ▸ Popular nouns described by dear ▸ Words that often appear near dear ▸ Rhymes of dear ▸ Invented words related to dear