English word senses marked with topical category "Dictionaries"

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Total 35 word senses

• AHD (Proper name) Initialism of American Heritage Dictionary.
• ChD (Proper name) Abbreviation of Chambers Dictionary.
• DCHP (Proper name) Initialism of Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles.
• DOE (Proper name) Initialism of Dictionary of Old English.
• Daijirin (Proper name) A comprehensive single-volume Japanese dictionary edited by Akira Matsumura and first published in 1988 by Sanseidō.
• Kangxi (Proper name) The Kangxi Dictionary, a dictionary and cross reference of Chinese characters, first published in 1716 at the behest of the Kangxi emperor, and used to the present day.
• LDE (Proper name) Initialism of Longman Dictionary of the English Language.
• MED (Proper name) Initialism of Middle English Dictionary.
• MW (Proper name) Initialism of Merriam-Webster: an American publishing company known for its dictionaries
• MWU (Proper name) Initialism of Midwestern University.
• OAL (Proper name) Initialism of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (of Current English).
• OED (Proper name) Initialism of Oxford English Dictionary.
• OLD (Proper name) Initialism of Oxford Latin Dictionary.
• Oxford (Proper name) A number of places in the United States:; A village in Furnas County and Harlan County, Nebraska.
• RHD (Proper name) Initialism of Random House Dictionary of the English Language.
• RHU (Proper name) Initialism of Random House Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged.
• Richard Snary (Noun) A dictionary.
• Unidentified Authorizing Dictionary (Proper name) A fictional supremely authoritative dictionary, supposed to be referenced by laypeople in discussions of "the dictionary".
• Wiktionary (Proper name) A particular version of this dictionary project, written in a certain language, such as the English-language Wiktionary (often known simply as the English Wiktionary).
• bilingual dictionary (Noun) A translation dictionary in two languages.
• clavis (Noun) A Roman key.
• dictionary (Noun) A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
• glossary (Noun) A list of difficult words or specialized terms used in a particular book or document, or in a particular domain of knowledge, with their definitions; a list of glosses (explanatory annotations).
• idioticon (Noun) A dictionary of a specific dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country.
• law dictionary (Noun) A dictionary designed to give information about terms used in the world of law.
• metadictionary (Noun) An online dictionary portal that allows searches on multiple lexicographical databases at once.
• pocket dictionary (Noun) A small portable dictionary.
• pronouncing dictionary (Noun) Synonym of pronunciation dictionary.
• pronunciation dictionary (Noun) A dictionary that provides pronunciation of words, usually in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
• rhyme book (Noun) Synonym of rhyme dictionary
• rime dictionary (Noun) Alternative spelling of rhyme dictionary.
• superdictionary (Noun) An exceptionally comprehensive dictionary, which includes all other dictionaries.
• thesaurus (Noun) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
• translation dictionary (Noun) A multilingual dictionary assisting translation between two or more languages.
• wiktionary (Noun) Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary.

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