Usually means: Reverence and devotion to deity.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word piety:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. piety: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. piety: Merriam-Webster
  3. piety: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. piety: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. piety: Collins English Dictionary
  6. piety: Vocabulary.com
  7. Piety, piety: Wordnik
  8. piety: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. piety: Wiktionary
  10. piety: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. piety: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. piety: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Piety, piety: Dictionary.com
  14. piety: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. piety: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Piety: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Piety: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. piety: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. piety: Rhymezone
  20. Piety: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. piety: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. piety: FreeDictionary.org
  23. piety: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. piety: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. piety: Legal dictionary

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  1. piety: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Religion (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Piety: Easton Bible
  2. Piety: Smith's Bible Dictionary
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)
  4. PIETY: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable, religion) Reverence and devotion to God.
noun:  (uncountable) Similar reverence to one's parents and family or to one's country.
noun:  (countable) A devout or otherwise laudable act, thought, or statement.
noun:  A platitude that may be empty or at least facile and undercommitted.

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