Dictionary

1. An expensive encyclopaedia where people look up the definitions of words.
2. A censored and sophisticated version of Urban Dictionary.
3. What we all wish n00bs on forums and chat sites knew how to use.

dic-tion-ar-y (abbr.: dict.)

noun ( pl. -aries)

a book that lists the words of a language in alphabetical order and gives their meaning, or that gives the equivalent words in a different language.
• a reference book on any subject, the items of which are arranged in alphabetical order : a dictionary of quotations.

ORIGIN
early 16th cent.: from medieval Latin dictionarium (manuale) or dictionarius (liber) ‘manual or book of words,’ from Latin dictio (see diction ).

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Dictionary

1. An expensive encyclopaedia where people look up the definitions of words.
2. A censored and sophisticated version of Urban Dictionary.
3. What we all wish n00bs on forums and chat sites knew how to use.

dic-tion-ar-y |ˈdik sh əˌnerē| (abbr.: dict.)

noun ( pl. -aries)

a book that lists the words of a language in alphabetical order and gives their meaning, or that gives the equivalent words in a different language.
• a reference book on any subject, the items of which are arranged in alphabetical order : a dictionary of quotations.

ORIGIN
early 16th cent.: from medieval Latin dictionarium (manuale) or dictionarius (liber) ‘manual or book of words,’ from Latin dictio (see diction ).

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