dictionary
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃə.nə.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃən.ɹi/
ipa: /ˈdɪkʃ.nə.ɹi/
enpr: dĭk'shə-nĕr-ē
ipa: /ˈdɪk.ʃəˌnɛ.ɹi/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɖɪkʃ(ə)nəri/
rhymes: -ɪkʃənɛəɹi
Forms: form: dictionaries
form: dictionnary
form: dixnary
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ-
Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti
Proto-Italic *deikō
Medieval Latin dīcō
Proto-Indo-European *-tisder.
Proto-Italic *-tjō
Medieval Latin -tiō
Medieval Latin dictiō
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āsios
Medieval Latin -ārius
Medieval 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.
Senses: examples: text: If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.
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:
hypernyms: wordbook
coordinate_terms: thesaurus
glosses: A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings or senses, oftentimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information.
examples: text: a law dictionary
text: a dictionary of sports
glosses: A reference work on a particular subject or activity in which the entries are arranged alphabetically; an alphabetical encyclopedia.
glosses: A person or thing regarded as a repository or compendium of information.
qualifier: frequently figurative
glosses: The collection of words used or understood by a particular person; vocabulary.
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, →OCLC, section I, page 106:
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:
qualifier: preceded by the
glosses: A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
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:
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).
Synonyms: word: dict
word: dict.
word: dictionary
word: explanatory dictionary
word: interpreter
word: lexicon
Hypernyms: word: catalog
word: catalogue
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
word: clavis
word: dialect dictionary
word: dialectical dictionary
word: fictionary
word: gazetteer
word: gloss
word: glossarium
word: glossary
word: hyperdictionary
word: idioticon
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
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
word: dictionarize
word: dictionarization
word: Dictionary
word: dictionaryese
word: dictionaryless
word: dictionarylike
word: dictionary-monger
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
Meronyms: word: vocabularium
word: word-hoard
word: word-stock
Derived terms: antidictionary
dicktionary
dictionarial
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