Usually means: Lowest point; opposite of zenith.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. nadir: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. nadir: Merriam-Webster
  3. nadir: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. nadir: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. nadir: Collins English Dictionary
  6. nadir: Vocabulary.com
  7. Nadir, nadir: Wordnik
  8. nadir: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Nadir, nadir: Wiktionary
  10. nadir: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. nadir: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. nadir: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. nadir: Dictionary.com
  14. nadir: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Nadir (disambiguation), Nadir (name), Nadir (topography), Nadir: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Nadir: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. nadir: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. nadir: Rhymezone
  19. Nadir: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. nadir: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. nadir: FreeDictionary.org
  22. nadir: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. nadir: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. nadir: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. Nadir: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

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  1. nadir: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nadir: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
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  3. Nadir: MedFriendly Glossary
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  6. nadir: Prostate Cancer Interactive Glossary
  7. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
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  9. nadir: Medical dictionary
  10. Nadir: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. NADIR: Acronym Finder
  3. nadir: A Word A Day
  4. nadir: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Nadir: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Mars Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Nadir: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. NADIR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nadir: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The point of the celestial sphere, directly opposite the zenith; inferior pole of the horizon; point of the celestial sphere directly under the place of observation.
noun:  (figuratively) The lowest point; time of greatest depression.
noun:  (astronomy) The axis of a projected conical shadow; the direction of the force of gravity at a location; down.
noun:  (beekeeping, archaic) An empty box added beneath a full one in a beehive to give the colony more room to expand or store honey.
verb:  (transitive, beekeeping) To extend (a beehive) by adding an empty box at the base.
noun:  A male given name.
noun:  A surname.

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