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General (32 matching dictionaries)

1. kowtow: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info]
2. kowtow: Oxford Dictionaries [home, info]
3. kowtow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
4. kowtow: Collins English Dictionary [home, info]
5. kowtow: Vocabulary.com [home, info]
6. kowtow: Macmillan Dictionary [home, info]
7. Kowtow, kowtow: Wordnik [home, info]
8. kowtow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary [home, info]
9. kowtow: Wiktionary [home, info]
10. kowtow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
11. kowtow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
12. kowtow: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
13. Kowtow, kowtow: Dictionary.com [home, info]
14. kowtow: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
15. kowtow: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
16. kowtow: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
17. Kowtow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
18. kowtow: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
19. Kowtow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
20. kowtow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
21. kowtow: Rhymezone [home, info]
22. Kowtow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
23. Kowtow: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
24. kowtow: Free Dictionary [home, info]
25. kowtow: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
26. kowtow: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
27. kowtow: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
28. Kowtow: The Word Detective [home, info]
29. kowtow: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
30. kowtow: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

31. kowtow: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

32. kowtow: A Word A Day [home, info]
33. kowtow: Idioms [home, info]
34. kowtow: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

35. kowtow: Urban Dictionary [home, info]

(Note: See kowtows for more definitions.)

Quick definitions from Macmillan ( ) Provided by Quick definitions from WordNet (kowtow) ▸ noun:  a former Chinese custom of touching the ground with the forehead as a sign of respect or submission ▸ verb:  bend the knees and bow in a servile manner ▸ verb:  try to gain favor by cringing or flattering ("He is always kowtowing to his boss") ▸ Also see kowtows ▸ Word origin ▸ Words similar to kowtow ▸ Usage examples for kowtow ▸ Popular adjectives describing kowtow ▸ Words that often appear near kowtow ▸ Rhymes of kowtow ▸ Invented words related to kowtow