0 a book that contains a list of words in alphabetical order and explains their meanings, or gives a word for them in another language; an electronic product giving similar information on a computer, smartphone, etc.:
a French-English/English-French dictionary
a bilingual/monolingual dictionary
Our online dictionary is regularly updated with new entries.
a biographical/science dictionary
a dictionary of quotations
The world's most ambitious online dictionary of Architects has been launched in Scotland.
Each word is checked by the computer against its internal dictionary.
1 a book that lists words with their meanings given in the same or in another language, and often includes other information
"Is that the correct spelling?" "I don't know - look it up in a dictionary."
In this dictionary, verbs which are intransitive are marked [I].
This dictionary went online in 1999.
Notes on how to use this dictionary can be found at the beginning of the book.
One great advantage of an online dictionary is that it can be constantly expanded.
If you will be using the same computer all the time, you may also want to add your name to your computer's dictionary.
I recently heard a radio presenter refer to dictionaries as babble-babble.
The most common results, then, are books that are something like dictionaries, something like encyclopedias and, often, something like cabinets of curiosities.
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