- a book or electronic resource that gives a list of the words of a language in alphabetical order and explains what they mean, or gives a word for them in a foreign language
- a Spanish-English dictionary
- a slang dictionary
- a dictionary of slang
- in a dictionary If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.
WordfinderExtra ExamplesTopics Educationa1- I couldn't find the word in the dictionary.
- You need a dictionary to understand what he's saying half the time.
- a way of teaching children how to use dictionaries
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- a book that explains the words that are used in a particular subject
- a dictionary of mathematics
- I decided to consult a medical dictionary.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
- comprehensive
- unabridged
- …
- check
- consult
- look something up in
- …
- definition
- entry
- in a/the dictionary
- a list of words in electronic form, for example stored in a computer’s spellcheckerOxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
- good
- comprehensive
- unabridged
- …
- check
- consult
- look something up in
- …
- definition
- entry
- in a/the dictionary
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from medieval Latin dictionarium (manuale) or dictionarius (liber) ‘manual or book of words’, from Latin dictio, from dicere ‘to say’.
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