Usually means: Running away secretly to marry.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word elopement:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. elopement: Merriam-Webster
  2. elopement: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. elopement: Collins English Dictionary
  4. elopement: Vocabulary.com
  5. Elopement, elopement: Wordnik
  6. elopement: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. elopement: Wiktionary
  8. Elopement, elopement: Dictionary.com
  9. elopement: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Elopement (disambiguation), Elopement (film), Elopement (marriage), Elopement: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Elopement: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. elopement: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. elopement: Rhymezone
  14. Elopement: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. elopement: FreeDictionary.org
  16. elopement: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. elopement: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. elopement: Webster's 1828 Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. Elopement: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Elopement: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. elopement: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

(Note: See elope as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (elopement)

noun:  The act of running away from home with a paramour.
noun:  The act of running away secretly for the purpose of getting married.
noun:  The act of running away from home (for any reason).
noun:  (pathology) The act of a person with dementia wandering away from the area where they are safe.

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