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plural dic·tion·ar·ies.
- : a book, optical disc, mobile device, or online lexical resource containing a selection of the words of a language, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, derived forms, etc., expressed in either the same or another language; lexicon; glossary. Print dictionaries of various sizes, ranging from small pocket dictionaries to multivolume books, usually sort entries alphabetically, as do typical CD or DVD dictionary applications, allowing one to browse through the terms in sequence. All electronic dictionaries, whether online or installed on a device, can provide immediate, direct access to a search term, its meanings, and ancillary information: an unabridged dictionary of English; a Japanese-English dictionary.
- : a book giving information on particular subjects or on a particular class of words, names, or facts, usually arranged alphabetically: a biographical dictionary; a dictionary of mathematics.
- : Computers. a list of codes, terms, keys, etc., and their meanings, used by a computer program or system.a list of words used by a word-processing program as the standard against which to check the spelling of text entered.
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The latest edition of the unfinished dictionary was published in nine volumes in the 1930s.
Actually, the word does show up in dictionaries, even if it is considered “nonstandard.”
If you can manage to not fall off that big, wide, beginner-friendly wedge of foam that is the soft-top board, you are—at least according to the dictionary—surfing.
In certain moments, airports certainly conjure up that other definition of romance, inspiring “a quality or feeling of mystery, excitement, and remoteness from everyday life,” as a dictionary puts it.
For a straight-up dictionary with the correct American English spellings, it’s hard to beat Merriam-Webster.
The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”
In fact, my Random House Dictionary goes so far as to define it.
Other new admissions to the dictionary include qayaq—an alternate spelling of kayak—and thongy.
“It is a virtual dictionary of the cityscape of Los Angeles,” Tarsia says.
Navigating this brave new world is the inventively-named Anana, an employee at a soon to be obsolete print dictionary.
He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.