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dic·tion·ary (dik′s̸hə ner′ē)

noun pl. dictionaries -·ar′·ies

  1. a book of alphabetically listed words in a language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information; lexicon
  2. a book of alphabetically listed words in a language with their equivalents in another language a Spanish-English dictionary
  3. any alphabetically arranged list of words or articles relating to a special subject a medical dictionary

Etymology: ML dictionarium < LL dictio: see diction

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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