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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. The act of moving, proceeding, or acting in a covert way.
  2. n. The quality or characteristic of being furtive or covert.
  3. n. Archaic The act of stealing.
  4. adj. Not disclosing one's true ideology, affiliations, or positions: a stealth candidate.
  5. adj. Having or providing the ability to prevent detection by radar: a stealth bomber; stealth technology.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The act of stealing; theft.
  2. n. A thing stolen.
  3. n. A secret or clandestine method or proceeding; means secretly employed to gain an object; surreptitious way or manner: used in a good or a bad sense.
  4. n. A secret going; a stolen or clandestine visit.

Wiktionary

  1. n. uncountable the attribute or characteristic of acting in secrecy, or in such a way that the actions are unnoticed or difficult to detect by others.
  2. n. archaic, countable an act of secrecy, especially one involving thievery

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete The act of stealing; theft.
  2. n. obsolete The thing stolen; stolen property.
  3. n. The bringing to pass anything in a secret or concealed manner; a secret procedure; a clandestine practice or action; -- in either a good or a bad sense.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. avoiding detection by moving carefully

Etymologies

  1. Middle English stelth, probably from Old English *stǣlth. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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