def.
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def. (plural defs.)
- Abbreviation of definition.
- Synonym: def
- 2004, David Foster Wallace, “Twenty-Four Word Notes”, in Both Flesh and Not, New York, N.Y., Boston, M.A., London: Little, Brown and Company, published 2012, →ISBN, page 274:
- Lots of writers, though, think fervent is synonymous with fervid, and most dictionary defs. don't do much to disabuse them.