dictionary (English, noun)
Pronunciation: tags: Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi/
tags: Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi/
tags: Received-Pronunciation
ipa: /ˈdɪkʃ.nə.ɹi/
tags: US
enpr: dĭk'shə-nĕr-ē
ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
tags: US
rhymes: -ɪkʃənɛəɹi
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti
Proto-Italic *deikō
Latin dīcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Latin -tiō
Latin dictiō
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Latin -ārium
Medieval Latin dictiōnāriumlbor.
Middle English dixionare
English dictionary
From Middle English dixionare, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary.
Definitions: examples: text: Coordinate term: thesaurus
text: If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.
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text: But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditional dictionaries such as Hornby's (1974) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English include not only categorial information in their entries, but also information about the range of Complements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).
ref: 1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 339:
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synonyms: dictionary
glosses: 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.
examples: text: Look it up in the dictionary, and what do you find?
ref: 1930, Norman Lindsay, chapter 6, in Redheap, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1965, →OCLC, section I, page 106:
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text: By 1986 the name Walkman was included as a word in the English dictionary.
ref: 2019, John Hughes, Life Pre-Intermediate Student's Book, National Geographic Learning, page 188:
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qualifier: preceded by the
glosses: A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
glosses: Any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g., biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.
tags: broadly
examples: text: User calls RouteCollection.GetVirtualPath, passing in a RequestContext, a dictionary of values, and an optional route name used to select the correct route to generate the URL.
ref: 2011, Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3:
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topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
hyponyms: hash table
glosses: 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).
Forms: form: dictionaries
tags: plural
form: dictionnary
tags: alternative
form: dixnary
tags: alternative
Synonyms: word: dict
word: dict.
word: dictionary
word: explanatory dictionary
word: interpreter
tags: obsolete
word: lexicon
Hypernyms: word: catalog
tags: US
word: catalogue
tags: UK
word: list
word: reference
word: reference work
word: wordbook
Hyponyms: word: anagram dictionary
word: bilingual dictionary
word: data dictionary
word: desk dictionary
word: dictionary on historical principles
word: e-dictionary
word: encyclopedic dictionary
word: explanatory dictionary
word: historical dictionary
word: law dictionary
word: metadictionary
word: morphological dictionary
word: pedagogical dictionary
word: picture dictionary
word: pocket dictionary
word: pronouncing dictionary
word: pronunciation dictionary
word: reverse dictionary
word: rhyme dictionary
word: rhyming dictionary
word: rime dictionary
word: subdictionary
word: translating dictionary
word: translation dictionary
word: visual dictionary
word: Wiktionary
word: AHD
word: Catholicon
tags: historical
word: clavis
tags: uncommon
word: dialect dictionary
word: dialectical dictionary
word: fictionary
word: gazetteer
word: gloss
word: glossarium
tags: historical
word: glossary
word: hyperdictionary
word: idioticon
tags: rare
word: inverted dictionary
word: key
word: minidictionary
word: minilexicon
word: multilingual dictionary
word: MW
word: Oxford
word: predictionary
word: superdictionary
word: Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary
word: vocabulary
word: Webster
Meronyms: word: vocabularium
word: word-hoard
word: word-stock
Coordinate terms: word: anagram dictionary
word: BD
word: biographical dictionary
word: concordance
word: guide
word: legend
word: onomasticon
word: rhyme book
word: rhyme dictionary
word: rhyming dictionary
word: thesaurus
word: wordlist
word: argumentum ad dictionarium
word: dictionarian
word: dictionaried
word: dictionarily
word: dictionarist
tags: rare
word: dictionarize
word: dictionarization
word: Dictionary
tags: pejorative
usually
word: dictionaryese
word: dictionaryless
word: dictionarylike
word: dictionary-monger
tags: rare
word: interdictionary
word: lexicographer
word: lexicographese
word: lexicographic
word: lexicomania
word: lexiconist
word: lexiconize
word: lexiconophilia
word: lexiconophilist
word: long-haired dictionary
word: multidictionary
word: nondictionary
word: pillow dictionary
word: sleeping dictionary
word: undictionaried
word: walking dictionary
word: Wiktionarian
Derived terms: antidictionary
dicktionary
dictionarian
dictionaric
dictionarily
dictionarist
dictionarization
dictionary attack
dictionary attacker
dictionary definition
dictionaryese
dictionary form
dictionaryless
dictionarylike
dictionary-monger
fictionary
have swallowed a dictionary
hyperdictionary
interdictionary
long-haired dictionary
minidictionary
multidictionary
nondictionary
Pictionary
pillow dictionary
predictionary
sleeping dictionary
superdictionary
swallow the dictionary
walking dictionary
Related terms: diction
encyclopedia
lexicon
thesaurus
vocabulary
wordlist