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General (29 matching dictionaries)

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

Art (1 matching dictionary)

28. defense: Literary Criticism [home, info]

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

29. defense: Webster's New World Law Dictionary [home, info]
30. defense: Law.com Dictionary [home, info]
31. defense: Everybody's Legal Dictionary [home, info]
32. Defense: THE 'LECTRIC LAW LIBRARY'S REFERENCE ROOM [home, info]
33. defense: Glossary of Legal Terms [home, info]
34. Defense (legal), defense, the defense: Legal dictionary [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

35. defense: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)

36. defense: online medical dictionary [home, info]
37. defense: Medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

38. DEFENSE: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
39. defense: Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols [home, info]
40. Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense, Defense: Encyclopedia of the Orient [home, info]
41. defense: Idioms [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

42. defense: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)

43. Defense: Chess Dictionary [home, info]
44. Defense, defense: Sports Terms [home, info]
45. Defense, defense: Sports Definitions [home, info]

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

46. Defense: Dictionary of Military Architecture [home, info]

(Note: See defensing for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (defense) ▸ noun:  protection from harm ("Sanitation is the best defense against disease") ▸ noun:  military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies ("They died in the defense of Stalingrad") ▸ noun:  a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him ("He gave evidence for the defense") ▸ noun:  the justification for some act or belief ("He offered a persuasive defense of the theory") ▸ noun:  an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack ("He joined the defense against invasion") ▸ noun:  the defendant and his legal advisors collectively ("The defense called for a mistrial") ▸ noun:  (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring ("His teams are always good on defense") ▸ noun:  a structure used for defense ("The artillery battered down the defenses") ▸ noun:  the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions ("In defense he said the other man started it") ▸ noun:  the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the UnitedStates; created in 1947 ▸ noun:  (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires ▸ Also see defensing ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to defense ▸ Usage examples for defense ▸ Idioms related to defense (New!) ▸ Popular adjectives describing defense ▸ Words that often appear near defense ▸ Rhymes of defense ▸ Invented words related to defense