Meaning

6 senses
  1. 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.

  2. 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.

    A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.

  3. (broadly)A reference work on a particular subject or activity in which the entries are arranged alphabetically; an alphabetical encyclopedia.

    a law dictionary

    a dictionary of sports

  4. (figuratively)The collection of words used or understood by a particular individual.

  5. (figuratively)Someone or something regarded as a repository or compendium of information.

    walking dictionary

  6. 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).

More definitions
  • a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them

Examples

1099 sentences
  1. Will you lend me your dictionary?

    Даш мені свій словник? — deniko

    ruВы не одолжите мне ваш словарь? — Olya

    deLeihst du mir dein Wörterbuch? — BraveSentry

  2. Do you have an English dictionary?

    У тебе є англійський словник? — deniko

    ruУ вас есть словарь английского языка? — jonnywalker

    deHast du ein Englischwörterbuch? — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. Look it up in the dictionary.

    Пошукай це в словнику. — deniko

    ruПоищи это в словаре. — marafon

    deSchlag es im Wörterbuch nach! — Tamy

  4. The dictionary is up to date.

    Цей словник актуальний. — deniko

    deDas Wörterbuch ist auf dem neusten Stand. — Sudajaengi

  5. I want to buy this dictionary.

    Я хочу купити цей словник. — rmdas

    ruЯ хочу купить этот словарь. — SilverBaby

Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
reference work of words and their meanings:
Русский
By meaning 1
reference work of words and their meanings:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
reference work of words and their meanings:

Origin

From Middle English dixionare, a learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from

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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Forms

plural: dictionaries
Singulardictionary
Pluraldictionaries

regular

Synonyms

7 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a reference book containing an alphabetical list of words with information about them:lexicon

Word family

53 related words

Collocations

12 patterns
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  • have a dictionary

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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