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We found 46 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word recess:
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General (31 matching dictionaries)

1. recess: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. recess, recess: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries [home, info]
3. recess: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. recess: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. recess: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. recess, recess: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Recess, recess: Wordnik [home, info]
8. recess: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. recess: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. recess: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. recess: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. recess: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. recess: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. recess: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. recess: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. recess: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Recess (Holy Roman Empire), Recess (TV Series), Recess (TV series), Recess (album), Recess (break), Recess (disambiguation), Recess (motion), Recess (parliamentary procedure), Recess (song), Recess (tv series), Recess: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. Recess: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
19. recess: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
20. recess: Rhymezone [home, info]
21. recess: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
22. recess: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
23. Recess (school): American-Britih Dictionary [home, info]
24. Recess: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
25. recess: Free Dictionary [home, info]
26. recess: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
27. recess: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
28. recess: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
29. recess: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

30. recess: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
31. recess: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
32. recess: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
33. Recess: Construction Term Glossary [home, info]
34. Recess: GLOSSARY OF LEGISLATIVE TERMS [home, info]
35. recess: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

36. recess: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)

37. recess: online medical dictionary [home, info]
38. Recess: Gray's Anatomy (1918) [home, info]
39. recess: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

40. Recess: Arms and Armour [home, info]
41. RECESS: Acronym Finder [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

42. Recess: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)

43. recess: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL [home, info]
44. Recess: AUTOMOTIVE TERMS [home, info]

(Note: See recessing for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (recess) ▸ noun:  an enclosure that is set back or indented ▸ noun:  a small concavity ▸ noun:  a pause from doing something (as work) ▸ noun:  an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) ▸ noun:  a state of abeyance or suspended business ▸ verb:  make a recess in ("Recess the piece of wood") ▸ verb:  put into a recess ("Recess lights") ▸ verb:  close at the end of a session ▸ Also see recessing ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to recess ▸ Usage examples for recess ▸ Idioms related to recess (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing recess ▸ Words that often appear near recess ▸ Rhymes of recess ▸ Invented words related to recess