dictionary

Speech parts

1. dictionary - Noun

2. dictionary - Verb

3. Dictionary - Proper noun

Meaning

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

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lexicon encyclopedia atlas quarto handbook encyclopaedia gazetteer language book evidence account novel glossary concordance album

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Antonyms

disorder listening silence chaos disrupt confuse

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Hypernyms

wordbook

Hyponyms

gazetteer unabridged spelling checker spell-checker desk dictionary bilingual dictionary

Phrases with the word

synonym dictionary Webster's Dictionary dictionary editor foreign-language dictionary dictionary maker unabridged dictionary

Derivatives

dictionaries

Anagrams

indicatory

Examples

The greatest masterpiece of literature is only a dictionary out of order. Jean Cocteau

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. Napoleon Bonaparte

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. Steven Wright

A dictionary can only be read when it is printed. Chinese Proverb

The dictionary is the only place where success comes before work. American Proverb

Strauss, Emanuel (1998). Concise Dictionary of European Proverbs (Abbreviated ed.). Routledge. p. 92. ISBN 0415160502. Danish Proverb

Close letter words and terms

dictionaric dictionarily dictionarist dictionary attack dictionary attacker dictionary catalog