Dictionary
['dɪkʃ(ə)n(ə)rɪ] or ['dɪkʃə'nɛri]
Definition
(noun.) a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them.
Editor: Rena--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
(n.) 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.
Editor: Wendell
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Lexicon, vocabulary, GLOSSARY, word-book.[2]. Encyclopædia, alphabetical summary (in any department of knowledge).
Edited by Jimmy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lexicon, wordbook, vocabulary, glossary
Typist: Meg
Definition
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.
Edited by Jessica
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are referring to a dictionary, signifies you will depend too much upon the opinion and suggestions of others for the clear management of your own affairs, which could be done with proper dispatch if your own will was given play.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary however is a most useful work.
Edited by Darrell
Examples
- The dictionary tells us that a dream is a train of vagrant ideas which present themselves to the mind while we are asleep. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- You are quite a dictionary. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Among the other books were a primer, some child's readers, numerous picture books, and a great dictionary. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The Frenchman found fault with everything at table, drank _eau sucrée,_ and studied in his dictionary. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Just as the dictionary was ready to be issued, in the autumn of 1439, an event occurred which threw the firm into confusion. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- What a useful work a Dictionary is! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Between a sallow dictionary and worn-out grammar would magically grow a fresh interesting new work, or a classic, mellow and sweet in its ripe age. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Lincoln developed his logical powers conning the dictionary. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It seems to me that this is pretty close to the dictionary definition of genius. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Dictionary order. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- And lo, the Doctor, always our good friend, labouring at his Dictionary (somewhere about the letter D), and happy in his home and wife. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- There were no such resources in the world in 300 B.C. Alexandria had still to produce the first grammar and the first dictionary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Tarzan had long since learned the use of the dictionary, but much to his sorrow and perplexity it proved of no avail to him in this emergency. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- For your benefit, Mr. Moore, I've been looking up the word 'sentimental' in the dictionary, and I find it to mean 'tinctured with sentiment. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I looked for it in the dictionary when I came home. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Are we to suppose from this curiosity and prying into dictionaries, could our heroine suppose that Mr. Crawley was interested in her? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Neil