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  1. noun A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including meaning, pronunciation, and etymology.
  2. noun A book listing the words of a language with translations into another language.
  3. noun A book listing words or other linguistic items in a particular category or subject with specialized information about them: a medical dictionary.
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  • Being in the dictionary is an artificial distinction. —  Erin McKean redefines the dictionary
  • On such occasions a dictionary is apt to struggle.
  • To many users, a dictionary is the linguistic representation of a shared culture, one they not only witness but actively participate in.
  • The notion that a dictionary could be the arbiter of what words are "real" fascinates me.
  • It was a six hundred thousand word dictionary, and it cracked Wendy's password (humanitarian) in about two seconds. —  JENNIFER GOVERNMENT - Max Barry
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  1. Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiō, dictiōn-, diction; see diction.

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  1. = French dictionnaire (later G. diktionär = Swedish diktionär = Danish diktionœr) = Spanish Portuguese diccionario = Italian dizionario, from Middle Latin dictionarium, neuter, also dictionarius, masculine (sc. L. liber, book), literally a word-book, from Late Latin dictio(n-), a word: see diction. First used, it is said, by Joannes de Garlandia (died about adjective d. 1250), the compiler of a dictionarius, a classified list of words. Exactly equivalent in etymological meaning are vocabulary, lexicon, and word-book.
 

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/ˈdɪkʃənæəri/
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