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a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order
try to develop the habit of going to the dictionary whenever you encounter an unfamiliar word
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Call it the paradox of the modern dictionary.
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Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Internally, the current workspace contained not only the visible text documents but also any custom words the user added to the dictionary and any additional tForth words defined in memory.
—Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
Others, like pain points and thought leaders, seem like things that AI got from business buzzword dictionaries.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
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Stefan Fatsis, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2025
Internally, the current workspace contained not only the visible text documents but also any custom words the user added to the dictionary and any additional tForth words defined in memory.
—Cameron Kaiser, ArsTechnica, 12 Sep. 2025
Transcripts, grammars, vocabularies, dictionaries, glyph studies, botanical studies, commentaries, articles, editions of codices, correspondence, maps, charts, drawings, photographs, Maya Society materials, genealogies of Maya families, and Mayan glyphs on moveable type.
—The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 12 Sep. 2025
Others, like pain points and thought leaders, seem like things that AI got from business buzzword dictionaries.
—John Werner, Forbes.com, 7 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for dictionary
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Music videos began in the 1960s and have been a cornerstone of the pop culture lexicon for decades.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
13 Oct. 2025
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First, your confusion is kind of the point ‒ today's slang is part of an ever-changing lexicon that separates the young from the young-at-heart.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
5 Oct. 2025
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“Dictionary.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dictionary. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.
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