Usually means: Large deer species, antlers, forest.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. elk: Merriam-Webster
  2. Elk, elk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. elk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. elk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Elk, elk: Wordnik
  7. elk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Elk, elk: Wiktionary
  9. elk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. elk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. elk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Elk, elk: Dictionary.com
  13. elk: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. elk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Elk (Milwaukee sculpture), Elk (disambiguation), Elk (sculpture), Elk (steam tug), Elk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Elk: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. elk: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. elk: Rhymezone
  19. Elk, elk(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. elk: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. elk: FreeDictionary.org
  22. elk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. elk: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. elk: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. elk: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Elk: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. ELK (Scheme implementation), Elk (Cervus canadensis), Elk (animal), elk: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ELK, Elk (Cervus canadensis), Elk (animal): Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. ELK: Acronym Finder
  4. ELK: Three Letter Words with definitions
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ELK: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. elk: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Elk: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of various large species of deer such as the red deer, moose or wapiti (see usage notes).
noun:  (chiefly Europe, Commonwealth) Any of the subspecies of the moose (Alces alces, the largest member of the deer family, alternatively named Eurasian elk to avoid confusion with the wapiti), that occurs only in Europe and Asia.
noun:  (Canada, US) Common wapiti (Cervus canadensis), the second largest member of the deer family, once thought to be a subspecies of red deer.
noun:  (British India) Sambar (Cervus unicolor).
noun:  A member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, an American fraternal order.
noun:  (informal) An Acorn Electron computer.
noun:  (Canadian football) A team member of the Canadian Football League's Edmonton Elks (formerly known as the Eskimos).
noun:  A surname from Dutch.
noun:  Obsolete form of elke (common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus)). [(obsolete) The European wild, whistling, or common swan (Cygnus cygnus, syn. Cygnus ferus).]
noun:  (computing) Acronym of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana.

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