Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus  Customize   Spruce   Help


OneLook


Jump to: General, Art, Business, Computing, Medicine, Miscellaneous, Religion, Science, Slang, Sports, Tech, Phrases 

We found 38 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word defend:
Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "defend" is defined.

General dictionaries General (30 matching dictionaries)
  1. defend: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
  2. defend: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
  3. defend: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  4. defend: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
  5. defend: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
  6. defend: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
  7. Defend, defend: Wordnik [home, info]
  8. defend: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
  9. defend: Wiktionary [home, info]
  10. defend: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  11. defend: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  12. defend: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  13. defend: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  14. defend: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  15. defend: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  16. defend: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  17. Defend: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  18. Defend: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  19. defend: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  20. defend: Rhymezone [home, info]
  21. defend: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  22. defend: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  23. defend: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  24. defend: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. defend: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. defend: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. defend: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  28. defend: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Art dictionaries Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DEFEND: Shakespeare Glossary [home, info]

Business dictionaries Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. defend: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
  2. Defend: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
  3. defend: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
  4. defend: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defend: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defend: Idioms [home, info]

Slang dictionaries Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. defend: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See defends for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan (
)
American English Definition British English Definition

Provided by



Quick definitions from WordNet (defend)

verb:  be the defense counsel for someone in a trial ("Ms. Smith will represent the defendant")
verb:  argue or speak in defense of
verb:  be on the defensive; act against an attack
verb:  protect against a challenge or attack
verb:  state or assert
verb:  protect or fight for as a champion
verb:  fight against or resist strongly

▸ Also see defends
Word origin

Words similar to defend

Usage examples for defend

Idioms related to defend (New!)

Words that often appear near defend

Rhymes of defend

Invented words related to defend


Phrases that include defend:   warrant to sue and defend, campaign to defend the constitution, can't defend, cant defend, duty to defend, more...

Words similar to defend:   champion, defendable, defended, defending, fight, guard, hold, maintain, oppose, represent, support, fend for, fight back, fight down, shield, more...


Search for defend on Google or Wikipedia


Search completed in 0.021 seconds.

Home   Reverse Dictionary / Thesaurus  Customize  Privacy   API   Spruce   Help