dictionary
IPA: dˈɪkʃʌnɛri
noun
- A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data.
- (preceded by the) A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
- (by extension) Any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g., biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.
- (computing) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (sense 1).
- Nickname for a swot or studious person, or one who uses needlessly complicated words.
verb
- (transitive) To look up in a dictionary.
- (transitive) To add to a dictionary.
- (intransitive, rare) To compile a dictionary.
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Examples of "dictionary" in Sentences
- The is the purview of a dictionary.
- You can look up the word in the dictionary.
- It just parrots the dictionary definitions of the word.
- I deleted the dictionary definition the preceeded the article.
- The dictionary argument is weakened by the nature of the article.
- I've heard talk of some old dictionary using the word to mean libertine.
- Here also the barbarous words are ranged into a dictionary by themselves.
- That he's incapable of looking up the meaning of a word in the dictionary
- On the other hand, let see the translation of the word vile in dictionary.
- Please have the decency not to hide behind dictionary definitions of the word.
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