Usually means: Dead-end street, circular end.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cul-de-sac: Merriam-Webster
  2. cul-de-sac: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cul-de-sac: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cul-de-sac, cul-de-sac: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cul-de-sac: Wordnik
  6. cul-de-sac: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. cul-de-sac: Wiktionary
  8. cul-de-sac: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cul-de-sac: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. cul-de-sac: Dictionary.com
  11. cul-de-sac: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. cul-de-sac: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Cul-de-sac: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cul-de-sac: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cul-de-sac: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Cul-de-sac: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. Cul-de-Sac: Britih-American Dictionary
  18. cul-de-sac: FreeDictionary.org
  19. cul-de-sac: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. cul-de-sac: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cul-de-sac: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cul-de-sac: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. cul-de-sac: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Cul-de-sac: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. cul-de-sac: Medical dictionary
  6. Cul-de-sac: Drug Medical Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cul-de-sac: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cul-de-sac: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A blind alley or dead end street.
noun:  A circular area at the end of a dead end street to allow cars to turn around, designed so children can play on the street, with little or no through-traffic.
noun:  (figurative) An impasse.
noun:  (medicine) A sack-like cavity, a tube open at one end only.

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