Definition of the word glossary

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A glossary (from Ancient Greek: γλῶσσα, glossa; language, speech, wording) also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms.[citation needed] Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are most commonly associated with non-fiction books, in some cases, fiction novels sometimes include a glossary for unfamiliar terms.

A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language or glossed by synonyms (or at least near-synonyms) in another language.

In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology. Automatic methods have been also provided that transform a glossary into an ontology[1] or a computational lexicon.[2]

Core glossary[edit]

The intelligence law glossary provides a description of the key terms in intelligence law.

A core glossary is a simple glossary or defining dictionary that enables definition of other concepts, especially for newcomers to a language or field of study. It contains a small working vocabulary and definitions for important or frequently encountered concepts, usually including idioms or metaphors useful in a culture.

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Computational approaches to the automated extraction of glossaries from corpora[3] or the Web[4][5] have been developed in the recent years. These methods typically start from domain terminology and extract one or more glosses for each term of interest. Glosses can then be analyzed to extract hypernyms of the defined term and other lexical and semantic relations.

See also[edit]

  • Index (publishing)
  • Terminology extraction
  • Frahang-i Pahlavig, a glossary of Pahlavi logograms
  • Controlled vocabulary

References[edit]

  1. ^ R. Navigli, P. Velardi. From Glossaries to Ontologies: Extracting Semantic Structure from Textual Definitions, Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge (P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano, Eds.), Series information for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2008, pp. 71-87.
  2. ^ R. Navigli. Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses, Proc. of 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, March 30-April 3rd, 2009, pp. 594-602.
  3. ^ J. Klavans and S. Muresan. Evaluation of the Definder System for Fully Automatic Glossary Construction Archived 2019-12-22 at the Wayback Machine. In Proc. of American
    Medical Informatics Association Symp., 2001, pp. 324–328.
  4. ^ A. Fujii, T. Ishikawa. Utilizing the World Wide Web as an Encyclopedia: Extracting Term Descriptions from Semi-Structured Texts. In Proc. 38th Ann. Meeting Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, 2000, pp. 488–495.
  5. ^ P. Velardi, R. Navigli, P. D’Amadio. Mining the Web to Create Specialised Glossaries, IEEE Intelligent Systems, 23(5), IEEE Press, 2008, pp. 18-25.

External links[edit]

Look up glossary in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

  • glossarist.com: The Glossarist — Large list of glossaries
  • www.ontopia.net: The TAO of Topic Maps
  • www.babel-linguistics.com: Babel Linguistics Glossaries Selected Multilingual Glossaries by Industry
  • Hessels, John Henry (1911). «Gloss, Glossary» . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 124–128. This provides a detailed description of the development of glossaries in classical languages.
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: a collection of textual glosses or of specialized terms with their meanings

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This glossary only scratches the surface.


—Lauren Mcgaughy, Dallas News, 22 Mar. 2023




Derwin, Stickabush, Itzsoweezee, Dan Stuckie, Dante is a scrub, Buddy: the group developed their own cryptophasia, a personal glossary of inside jokes to define themselves in opposition to a harsh hip-hop world that was destined to misunderstand their methods.


—Hazlitt, 22 Mar. 2023




Check out our glossary to understand where cloud computing came from, and where it’s headed.


—Heather Landy, Quartz, 15 Dec. 2022




This glossary has been adapted from a version originally published in October 2021.


—Laura Smith-spark, CNN, 5 Nov. 2022




The newest addition to this glossary is CRT.


—Damon Young, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2022




The script should probably have a glossary at the back of it, because there’s a lot of detail in it, and that comes truly from Chad Stahelski, and his passion and his commitment to martial arts.


—Clark Collis, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023




To stay on the same page, all of your company’s employees, not only data specialists and executives, need a unified glossary and well-thought definitions.


—Vlad Vahromovs, Forbes, 22 June 2022




If technical terms can not be avoided, include a glossary.


—Lila Maclellan, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2023


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Word History

Etymology

Middle English glosarie, borrowed from Medieval Latin glōsārium, glōssārium, from glōsa, glōssa gloss entry 3 + Latin -ārium -ary entry 1

First Known Use

14th century, in the meaning defined above

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noun, plural glos·sa·ries.

a list of terms in a special subject, field, or area of usage, with accompanying definitions.

such a list at the back of a book, explaining or defining difficult or unusual words and expressions used in the text.

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Origin of glossary

1350–1400; Middle English glossarye<Latin glōssarium difficult word requiring explanation <Greek glōssárion, diminutive of glôssa tongue, language; later taken as a collection of such words, by construing suffix as Latin -ārium-ary; cf. gloss2

OTHER WORDS FROM glossary

glos·sar·i·al [glo-sair-ee-uhl, glaw-], /glɒˈsɛər i əl, glɔ-/, adjectiveglos·sar·i·al·ly, adverbglos·sa·rist, noun

Words nearby glossary

glory-pea, Glos, gloss, glossa, glossal, glossary, glossator, glossectomy, glossematics, glosseme, glosser

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How to use glossary in a sentence

  • The document included a glossary of terms to be used to address the LGBTQ and intersex community, and it came from the Madras High Court.

  • Bustle parent company BDG’s Inclusivity Guide, created by the company’s Inclusion Council, goes over how to promote diversity “while not being tokenizing,” and also includes a glossary of terms to avoid, according to a spokesperson.

  • The page includes a pandemic glossary, a vaccine explainer and a guide to identifying misinformation.

  • If you’re new to the chat and wondering about acronyms, here’s a glossary of frequently-used chat terms.

  • A glossary of what all those strange phrases in classic Christmas songs really mean.

  • The nine-page glossary in the back of the book is helpful, but only up to a point.

  • The downside is that you may read in a perpetual state of glossary-checking and Goodreads-searching.

  • The essential glossary here: “Molly” is a slang word for MDMA, a drug often used for date rape; “that” is the date raping.

  • Plus, read an account of an escape from Scientology’s Sea Org and a Scientology glossary.

  • He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson’s Dictionary.

  • It has a complete glossary of terms, and is illustrated with two hundred original drawings.

  • Except for yogh, h-stroke and paired , unusual letters appear only in the editorial material (introduction, notes and glossary).

  • The preceding examples give most of the more important weak verbs; others can be found in the Glossary.

  • Also, of the pronoun me; as in d m’endyte, G 32; see M’ in the Glossary, p. 157.

British Dictionary definitions for glossary

noun plural -ries

an alphabetical list of terms peculiar to a field of knowledge with definitions or explanationsSometimes called: gloss

Derived forms of glossary

glossarial (ɡlɒˈsɛərɪəl), adjectiveglossarially, adverbglossarist, noun

Word Origin for glossary

C14: from Late Latin glossārium; see gloss ²

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Other forms: glossaries

A glossary is a dictionary of terms specific to a certain subject. A biology textbook might have a glossary in the back, so you can quickly look up all those technical words.

Many fields of study use terms that are pretty much restricted to that field of study, so authors often supply a glossary to help people understand what they’re talking about. The glossary is often found at the end of a book or article and is usually in alphabetical order. A glossary can also come at the end of a chapter or even in footnotes. If you’re just joining the world of Dungeons and Dragons, I recommend you look over the glossary, so you can get a sense of what your fellow gamers are talking about.

Definitions of glossary

  1. noun

    an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field

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glossary

1) слова́рь (приложенный в конце книги)

2) глосса́рий

Англо-русский словарь. — М.: Советская энциклопедия.
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1969.

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  • glossary — late 14c., from L. glossarium collection of glosses, from Gk. glossarion, dim. of glossa obsolete or foreign word (see GLOSS (Cf. gloss) (n.2)) …   Etymology dictionary

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  • glossary — ► NOUN (pl. glossaries) ▪ an alphabetical list of words relating to a specific subject, text, or dialect, with explanations. ORIGIN Latin glossarium, from glossa explanation of a difficult word …   English terms dictionary

  • glossary — [glôs′ə rē, gläs′ə rə] n. pl. glossaries [ME glosarie < L glossarium < glossa: see GLOSS2] a list of difficult, technical, or foreign terms with definitions or translations, as for some particular author, field of knowledge, etc., often… …   English World dictionary

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  • glossary — UK [ˈɡlɒsərɪ] / US [ˈɡlɔsərɪ] noun [countable] Word forms glossary : singular glossary plural glossaries a list of the difficult words used in a piece of writing or subject, with explanations of their meaning …   English dictionary

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