The noun has 13 meanings:
Meaning #1:
document giving the tax collector information about the taxpayer's tax liability
Synonyms: tax return, income tax return
Meaning #2:
a coming to or returning home
Synonym: homecoming
Meaning #3:
the occurrence of a change in direction back in the opposite direction
Synonym: coming back
Meaning #4:
getting something back again
Synonyms: restitution, restoration, regaining
Meaning #5:
the act of returning to a prior location
Meaning #6:
the income arising from land or other property
Synonyms: issue, proceeds, take, takings, yield, payoff
Meaning #7:
happening again (especially at regular intervals)
Synonym: recurrence
Meaning #8:
a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one)
Synonyms: rejoinder, retort, riposte, replication, comeback, counter
Meaning #9:
the key on electric typewriters or computer keyboards that causes a carriage return and a line feed
Synonym: return key
Meaning #10:
a reciprocal group action
Synonyms: paying back, getting even
Meaning #11:
a tennis stroke that returns the ball to the other player
Meaning #12:
the act of running back the football after a kickoff or punt or interception or fumble
Meaning #13:
the act of someone appearing again
Synonym: reappearance
The verb return has 16 meanings:
Meaning #1:
come back to place where one has been before, or return to a previous activity
Synonyms: go back, get back, come back
Meaning #2:
give back
Synonym: render
Meaning #3:
go back to a previous state
Synonyms: revert, retrovert, regress, turn back
Meaning #4:
go back to something earlier
Synonyms: hark back, come back, recall
Meaning #5:
bring back to the point of departure
Synonyms: take back, bring back
Meaning #6:
return in kind
Meaning #7:
make a return, as of a punt or a kickback, in football
Meaning #8:
answer back
Synonyms: retort, come back, repay, riposte, rejoin
Meaning #9:
Synonyms: come back, be restored
Meaning #10:
pay back
Synonyms: refund, repay, give back
Meaning #11:
pass down
Synonyms: render, deliver
Meaning #12:
elect again
Synonym: reelect
Meaning #13:
be inherited by
Synonyms: fall, pass, devolve
Meaning #14:
return to a previous position; in mathematics
Meaning #15:
give or supply
Synonyms: render, yield, give, generate
Meaning #16:
submit (a report, etc.) to someone in authority
