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We found 74 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word patent:
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General (33 matching dictionaries)

1. patent: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. patent: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. patent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. patent: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. patent: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. patent, patent, patent: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Patent, patent: Wordnik [home, info]
8. patent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. patent: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. patent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. patent: V2 Vocabulary Building Dictionary [home, info]
12. patent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
13. patent: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
14. patent: Dictionary.com [home, info]
15. patent (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
16. Patent, patent: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
17. patent: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
18. Patent (disambiguation), Patent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
19. Patent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. patent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. patent: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. Patent (nt), patent, patent (het): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. patent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
24. Patent: Encarta® Online Encyclopedia, North American Edition [home, info]
25. patent: Free Dictionary [home, info]
26. patent: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
27. patent: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
28. patent: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
29. patent: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
30. Patent: The Word Detective [home, info]
31. patent: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

32. PATENT: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary) [home, info]
33. patent-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements [home, info]
34. patent: ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science [home, info]

Business (20 matching dictionaries)

35. Patent: MoneyGlossary.com [home, info]
36. patent: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary [home, info]
37. patent: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
38. Patent: Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary [home, info]
39. patent: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
40. patent: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
41. patent: INVESTORWORDS [home, info]
42. Patent: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
43. PATENT: Accounting Glossary [home, info]
44. Patent: E-Commerce and Marketing Dictionary of Terms [home, info]
45. patent: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
46. Patent: Bloomberg Financial Glossary [home, info]
47. Patent: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics [home, info]
48. PATENT: Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition [home, info]
49. Patent: Investopedia [home, info]
50. Patent: International Law Dictionary [home, info]
51. patent: Legal dictionary [home, info]
52. patent: Financial dictionary [home, info]
53. Patent: Accounting, Business Studies and Economics Dictionary [home, info]
54. patent: BusinessDictionary.com [home, info]

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)

55. patent: Webopedia [home, info]
56. Patent: Technopedia [home, info]
57. patent: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

58. Patent (adjective), Patent (noun): MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary [home, info]
59. patent: online medical dictionary [home, info]
60. patent: Medical dictionary [home, info]
61. Patent (adjective), Patent (noun): Drug Medical Dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

62. PATENT: Glossary of Ethical Terms [home, info]
63. PATENT, PATENT, PATENT: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words [home, info]
64. patent: Genealogy Glossary [home, info]

Science (6 matching dictionaries)

65. patent: Botanical Terms [home, info]
66. Patent: DOE Genome Glossary [home, info]
67. patent: Bryological [home, info]
68. patent: Glossary of Genetic Terms [home, info]
69. Patent: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia [home, info]
70. Patent: Biodiversity [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

71. patent: The Folk File [home, info]

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

72. patent: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary [home, info]

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Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (patent) ▸ noun:  a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention ▸ noun:  an official document granting a right or privilege ▸ verb:  obtain a patent for ("Should I patent this invention?") ▸ verb:  grant rights to; grant a patent for ▸ verb:  make open to sight or notice ("His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him") ▸ adjective:  (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage ("Patent ductus arteriosus") ▸ adjective:  clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses ("Patent advantages") ▸ Also see patents ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to patent ▸ Usage examples for patent ▸ Popular adjectives describing patent ▸ Popular nouns described by patent ▸ Words that often appear near patent ▸ Rhymes of patent ▸ Invented words related to patent