Usually means: Skin condition causing pimples, inflammation.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. acne: Merriam-Webster
  2. acne: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. acne: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. acne: Collins English Dictionary
  5. acne: Vocabulary.com
  6. Acne, acne: Wordnik
  7. acne: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. acne: Wiktionary
  9. acne: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. acne: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. acne: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. acne: Dictionary.com
  13. acne: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. acne: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Acne (disambiguation), Acne: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Acne: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. acne: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. acne: Rhymezone
  19. acne, acne, acne (de), acn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. acne: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. acne: FreeDictionary.org
  22. acne: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. acne: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. acne: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. acne: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Acne: Health & Beauty Glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. acne: Encyclopedia

Medicine (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. acne: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Acne: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Acne: Merck Manuals
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Health and Wellness Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  8. Hair Facts (No longer online)
  9. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  10. KidsHealth Glossary of Medical Words (No longer online)
  11. Acne: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  12. acne: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  13. acne: Medical dictionary
  14. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)
  15. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  16. Acne: Drug Medical Dictionary
  17. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Beauty Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Acne: Beauty & Health Glossary

(Note: See acned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (pathology) A skin condition, usually of the face, that is common in adolescents. It is characterised by red pimples, and is caused by the inflammation of sebaceous glands through bacterial infection.
noun:  A pattern of blemishes in an area of skin resulting from the skin condition.

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