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1. (n.) dictionary
a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usu. arranged alphabetically, with information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language.
2. dictionary
a book giving information on particular subjects or on a particular class of words, names, or facts, usu. arranged alphabetically:
a biographical dictionary.
3. dictionary
a list of words used by a word-processing program to check spellings in text.
Etymology: (1520–30; < ML dictiōnārium,dictiōnārius < LL dictiōn- word (see diction ))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) dictionary, lexicon
a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them
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1. (noun) dictionary
a book of words listed alphabetically with definitions explaining what they mean
a bilingual dictionary
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) dictionary
a book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook
2. (noun) dictionary
hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. dictionary
A reference book containing a list of words - usually in alphabetical order - giving information about form, pronunciation, etymology, grammar, and meaning. A foreign-language dictionary is an alphabetical list of words of one language with their meaning and equivalents in another language.
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Sense: a book containing the words of a language alphabetically arranged, with their meanings etc
This is an English dictionary.
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 Afrikaans: woordeboek |
 Arabic: قاموس |
 Bulgarian: речник |
 Brazilian: dicionário |
 Czech: slovník |
 German: das Wörterbuch |
 Danish: ordbog |
 Greek: λεξικό |
 Spanish: diccionario |
 Estonian: sõnaraamat |
 Farsi: واژنامه |
 Finnish: sanakirja |
 French: dictionnaire |
 Hebrew: מִילוֹן |
 Hindi: शब्दकोश |
 Croatian: rječnik, leksikon |
 Hungarian: szótár |
 Indonesian: kamus |
 Icelandic: orðabók |
 Italian: dizionario |
 Japanese: 辞書 |
 Korean: 사전 |
 Lithuanian: žodynas |
 Latvian: vārdnīca |
 Malay: kamus |
 Dutch: woordenboek |
 Norwegian: ordbok |
 Polish: słownik |
 Persian: واژنامه |
 Pashto: سيندګی، ډكشنرې، قاموس، دل |
 Portuguese: dicionário |
 Romanian: dicţionar |
 Russian: словарь |
 Slovak: slovník |
 Slovenian: slovar |
 Serbian: rečnik |
 Swedish: ordbok, lexikon |
 Thai: พจนานุกรม |
 Turkish: sözlük, lügat |
 Taiwanese: 詞典 |
 Ukrainian: словник |
 Urdu: قاموس |
 Vietnamese: từ điển |
 Chinese: 词典 |
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