English word senses marked with topical category "Dictionaries"
Parent categories: Lexicography, Reference works, Linguistics, Books, Language, Social sciences, Literature, Mass media, Communication, Sciences, Society, Culture, Entertainment, Writing, Media, Human behaviour, Human
Total 36 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.
- 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.
- OLD (Noun) Abbreviation of online dating.
- Oxford (Proper name) A number of places in the United States:; A village in Furnas County and Harlan County, Nebraska.
- Oxford (Proper name) A number of places in the United States:; A town, the county seat of Granville County, North Carolina.
- Oxford (Proper name) A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
- 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 glossary.
- dictionary (Noun) A reference work with a list of words from one or more languages, normally ordered alphabetically, explaining each word's meanings (senses), and sometimes also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, and translations, as well as other data.
- 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; a glossary.
- 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) A dictionary that provides pronunciation of words, usually in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- pronunciation dictionary (Noun) A dictionary that provides pronunciation of words, usually in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- rime book (Noun) Synonym of rime dictionary
- rime dictionary (Noun) A historical type of Chinese character dictionary that collates characters by rime and tone (pronunciation) rather than by radical. It does not necessarily provide definitions.
- superdictionary (Noun) An exceptionally comprehensive dictionary, which includes all other dictionaries.
- thesaurus (Noun) A dictionary or encyclopedia.
- translation dictionary (Noun) A dictionary that provides translations between two or more languages.
- wiktionary (Noun) Any online lexicon resembling Wiktionary.
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce).
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