Usually means: Earth-toned pigment; ancient use.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word ochre:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. ochre: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. ochre: Merriam-Webster
  3. ochre: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. ochre: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. ochre: Collins English Dictionary
  6. ochre: Vocabulary.com
  7. Ochre, ochre: Wordnik
  8. ochre: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. ochre: Wiktionary
  10. ochre: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. ochre: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Ochre, ochre: Dictionary.com
  13. ochre: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Ochre (disambiguation), Ochre (musician), Ochre: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ochre: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ochre: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ochre: Rhymezone
  18. Ochre: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ochre: FreeDictionary.org
  20. ochre: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. ochre: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. ochre: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ochre: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ochre: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. OCHRE: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ochre: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ochre: Ceramic Glossary Database

(Note: See ochres as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A clay earth pigment containing silica, aluminum and ferric oxide
noun:  A somewhat dark yellowish orange colour
noun:  (molecular biology, colloquial) The stop codon sequence "UAA."
noun:  (slang) Money, especially gold.
noun:  Any of various brown-coloured hesperiid butterflies of the genus Trapezites.
adjective:  Having a yellow-orange colour.
adjective:  (archaeology) Referring to cultures that covered their dead with ochre.
verb:  To cover or tint with ochre.
noun:  (obsolete) Alternative form of okra. [The edible immature mucilaginous seed pod (properly, capsule) of the Abelmoschus esculentus.]

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