dictionary
A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each term's meanings or senses, often also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information.
Noun 4 meanings
A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each term's meanings or senses, often also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information.
“If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.”
The collection of words used or understood by a particular individual.
Someone or something regarded as a repository or compendium of information.
“walking dictionary”
An associative array; a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (noun sense 1).
Verb 2 meanings
To look up in a dictionary.
To add to a dictionary.
Etymology
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.
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DICTIONARY at a glance
DICTIONARY has 10 letters and scores 16 points in Scrabble (D 2 + I 1 + C 3 + T 1 + I 1 + O 1 + N 1 + A 1 + R 1 + Y 4) and 17 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #6,783 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with dictionary
All rhymes- MILITARY13
- SECRETARY14
- NECESSARY14
- PRIMARY14
- LIBRARY12
- MARY9
- ANNIVERSARY17
- SECONDARY15
- CONTEMPORARY21
- TEMPORARY16
- ORDINARY12
- SCARY10
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