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: a reference source in print or electronic form containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactic and idiomatic uses

2

: a reference book listing alphabetically terms or names important to a particular subject or activity along with discussion of their meanings and applications

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: a reference book listing alphabetically the words of one language and showing their meanings or translations in another language

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: a computerized list (as of items of data or words) used for reference (as for information retrieval or word processing)

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Famed for his dictionary, «Rambler» essays and The Lives of the English Poets, Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) remains one of the most-quoted and carefully observed authors who ever lived.


—Publishers Weekly, 21 July 2008


I still read relatively slowly in Yiddish, with frequent recourse to a dictionary, and my first year of graduate school found me at my desk till two or three in the morning every night …


—Aaron Lansky, Outwitting History, 2004



Look it up in the dictionary.



try to develop the habit of going to the dictionary whenever you encounter an unfamiliar word

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From atop a desk the size of a French church door, Li extracted her favorite dictionary, Samuel Johnson’s 1755 Dictionary of the English Language, from a topography of books permanently unshelved.


—Alexandra Kleeman, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2022




No need to turn to the dictionary for this one.


—Dallas News, 9 Aug. 2022




Which word in the dictionary is spelled incorrectly?


—Lauren Wellbank, Woman’s Day, 1 Mar. 2023




And maybe some obscurity from the depths of the dictionary would be desperation only.


—James Brown, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2023




One aim of the dictionary is to do a better job acknowledging the contributions Black Americans have made to the English language.


—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2022




And for the third year running, our 19th sliver of the dictionary is still in the H’s.


—Pat Myers, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022




Another dictionary, Merriam-Webster, also selected pandemic as its word of the year earlier Monday.


—Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2020




Manam Hpang, author of an English-Kachin-Burmese dictionary, said the Kachin had an acute sense of persecution as Christians in a Buddhist land.


—Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2013


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borrowed from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, name for an alphabetized guide to the Vulgate, earlier dictiōnārius, name for a Latin textbook in which words are grouped by topic (apparently coined by its author, the 13th-century English-born university teacher John of Garland), from Latin dictiōn-, dictiō «speech, (in grammar) word, expression» + -ārius, -ārium -ary entry 1 — more at diction

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1526, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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Princeton’s WordNetRate this definition:4.0 / 2 votes

  1. dictionary, lexiconnoun

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:4.0 / 5 votes

  1. dictionarynoun

    A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically and explaining each word’s meaning and sometimes containing information on its etymology, usage, translations and other data.

  2. dictionarynoun

    An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a physical dictionary.

  3. dictionaryverb

    To look up in a dictionary

  4. dictionaryverb

    To add to a dictionary

  5. dictionaryverb

    To appear in a dictionary

  6. Etymology: dictionarium, from dictionarius, from dictio, from dictus, perfect past participle of dico + -arium.

Samuel Johnson’s DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. Dictionarynoun

    A book containing the words of any language in alphabetical order, with explanations of their meaning; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a word-book.

    Etymology: dictionarium, Latin.

    Some have delivered the polity of spirits, and left an account that they stand in awe of charms, spells, and conjurations; that they are afraid of letters and characters, notes and dashes, which, set together, do signify nothing; and not only in the dictionary of man, but in the subtler vocabulary of satan.
    Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. i. c. 10.

    Is it such a horrible fault to translate simulacra images? I see what a good thing it is to have a good catholick dictionary.
    Edward Stillingfleet.

    An army, or a parliament, is a collection of men; a dictionary, or nomenclature, is a collection of words.
    Isaac Watts.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

  1. Dictionarynoun

    a book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook

  2. Dictionarynoun

    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

  3. Etymology: [Cf. F. dictionnaire. See Diction.]

FreebaseRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

  1. Dictionary

    A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon. According to Nielsen a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical product that is characterised by three significant features: it has been prepared for one or more functions; it contains data that have been selected for the purpose of fulfilling those functions; and its lexicographic structures link and establish relationships between the data so that they can meet the needs of users and fulfill the functions of the dictionary.
    A broad distinction is made between general and specialized dictionaries. Specialized dictionaries do not contain information about words that are used in language for general purposes—words used by ordinary people in everyday situations. Lexical items that describe concepts in specific fields are usually called terms instead of words, although there is no consensus whether lexicology and terminology are two different fields of study. In theory, general dictionaries are supposed to be semasiological, mapping word to definition, while specialized dictionaries are supposed to be onomasiological, first identifying concepts and then establishing the terms used to designate them. In practice, the two approaches are used for both types. There are other types of dictionaries that don’t fit neatly in the above distinction, for instance bilingual dictionaries, dictionaries of synonyms, or rhyming dictionaries. The word dictionary is usually understood to refer to a monolingual general-purpose dictionary.

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  1. Dictionary

    dik′shun-a-ri, n. a book containing the words of a language alphabetically arranged, with their meanings, etymology, &c.: a lexicon: a work containing information on any department of knowledge, alphabetically arranged. [Low L. dictionarium. See Diction.]

U.S. National Library of MedicineRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  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.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dictionary

    An online reference of defined living language, terms, words and definitions.

    The dictionary definition is accurate, easy and simple.

    Submitted by MaryC on March 3, 2020  

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    Rank popularity for the word ‘DICTIONARY’ in Nouns Frequency: #1697

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    The numerical value of DICTIONARY in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

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    The numerical value of DICTIONARY in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of DICTIONARY in a Sentence

  1. B. J. Gupta:

    In order to find a good quotation in a dictionary of humorous quotations, I didn’t leave any stone unturned.

  2. Italo Calvino:

    The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary.

  3. John Henry Cardinal Newman:

    A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

  4. Kahlil Gibran:

    Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

  5. Peter Sokolowski:

    The girl quoting the definitions before (pronouncer Jacques) Bailly said them stated the usage note from our unabridged dictionary verbatim. … Its a very specific kind of writing that we do. I thought, Oh my goodness, this 13-year-old girl is quoting our dictionary back to us, these spellers as a group simply were unusually gifted. They may indicate that we have entered a new era of competition.

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