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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dictionary \Dic"tion*a*ry\, n.; pl {Dictionaries}. [Cf. F. dictionnaire See {Diction}.] 1. A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or illustrate any word or phrase, accumulated in time the materials of a dictionary --Johnson. 2. Hence a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary
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