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Noun

1. dictionary, lexicon

a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Dictionary

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noun plural -aries
1. 
a. 
a reference resource, in printed or electronic form, that consists of an alphabetical list of words with their meanings and parts of speech, and often a guide to accepted pronunciation and syllabification, irregular inflections of words, derived words of different parts of speech, and etymologies
b. 
a similar reference work giving equivalent words in two or more languages. Such dictionaries often consist of two or more parts, in each of which the alphabetical list is given in a different language
a German-English dictionary
c. 
(as modifier)
a dictionary definition
See also glossary, lexicon, thesaurus
2. 
a reference publication listing words or terms of a particular subject or activity, giving information about their meanings and other attributes
a dictionary of gardening
3. 
a collection of information or examples with the entries alphabetically arranged
a dictionary of quotations

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nounWord forms: plural ˈdictionˌaries
1. 
a book of alphabetically listed words in a language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information; lexicon
2. 
a book of alphabetically listed words in a language with their equivalents in another language
a Spanish-English dictionary
3. 
any alphabetically arranged list of words or articles relating to a special subject
a medical dictionary

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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n. pl. dic·tion·ar·ies
1. A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
2. A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words in one language with their translations in another language.
3. A reference work containing an alphabetical list of words in a particular category or subject with specialized information about them: a medical dictionary.
4. A list of words stored in machine-readable form for reference, as by spelling-checking software.

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