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dictionary noun (dictionaries) 1 a book containing the words of a language arranged alphabetically with their meanings, and sometimes also their pronunciation, grammatical labels, inflections, etymologies, etc. 2 such a book giving the meanings of the words in one or more different languages. 3 computing a program available in some word-processing packages which will check text for spelling errors against a dictionary held on disk. 4 an alphabetically arranged book of information.
ETYMOLOGY: 16c: from Latin dictionarium.

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