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From Middle English dixionare, learned borrowing from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, from Latin dictiōnārius, from dictiō (“a speaking”), from dictus, perfect past participle of dīcō (“to speak”) + -ārium (“room, place”). By surface analysis, diction + -ary.
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈdɪkʃənəɹi/, /ˈdɪkʃənɹi/, /ˈdɪkʃnəɹi/
- (General American, Canada) enPR: dĭk'shə-nĕr-ē, IPA(key): /ˈdɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/
- Rhymes: -ɪkʃənɛəɹi
- Hyphenation: dic‧tion‧a‧ry, dic‧tion‧ary
dictionary (plural dictionaries)
- 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.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dictionary
- Hypernym: wordbook
- Coordinate term: thesaurus
If you want to know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary.
1988, Andrew Radford, chapter 7, in Transformational grammar: a first course, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, page 339:
But what other kind(s) of syntactic information should be included in Lexical Entries? Traditional dictionaries such as Hornby's (1974) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English include not only categorial information in their entries, but also information about the range of Complements which a given item permits (this information is represented by the use of a number/letter code).
- (preceded by the) A synchronic dictionary of a standardised language held to only contain words that are properly part of the language.
2019, John Hughes, Life Pre-Intermediate Student's Book, National Geographic Learning, page 188:
By 1986 the name Walkman was included as a word in the English dictionary.
- (by extension) Any work that has a list of material organized alphabetically; e.g., biographical dictionary, encyclopedic dictionary.
- (computing) An associative array, a data structure where each value is referenced by a particular key, analogous to words and definitions in a dictionary (sense 1).
- Hyponym: hash table
2011, Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, Professional ASP.NET MVC 3:
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- dictionnary (obsolete)
- dixnary (pronunciation spelling, obsolete)
- anagram dictionary
- bilingual dictionary
- data dictionary
- desk dictionary
- dictionary on historical principles
- e-dictionary
- encyclopedic dictionary
- explanatory dictionary
- historical dictionary
- law dictionary
- metadictionary
- morphological dictionary
- pedagogical dictionary
- picture dictionary
- pocket dictionary
- pronouncing dictionary, pronunciation dictionary
- reverse dictionary
- rhyme dictionary, rhyming dictionary
- rime dictionary
- subdictionary
- translating dictionary, translation dictionary
- visual dictionary
- Wiktionary
- antidictionary
- dicktionary
- dictionaric
- dictionarily
- dictionary attack
- dictionary attacker
- dictionary definition
- dictionaryese
- dictionary form
- dictionaryless
- dictionarylike
- dictionary-monger
- fictionary
- have swallowed a dictionary
- long-haired dictionary
- Pictionary
- pillow dictionary
- sleeping dictionary
- swallow the dictionary
- walking dictionary
publication that explains the meanings of an ordered list of words
- Abaza: ажвар (ažʷar)
- Abkhaz: ажәар (aẑʷar)
- Adyghe: гущыӏалъ (gʷuśəʼalˢ)
- Afrikaans: woordeboek (af)
- Akan: please add this translation if you can
- Albanian: fjalor (sq) m
- Alemannic German: Wärterbüach, Wörterbuch, Läxikon
- Ambonese Malay: kamus
- American Sign Language: D@NearPalm-PalmDown-OpenB@CenterChesthigh-PalmUp CirclesMidlineContact
- Amharic: መዝገበ ቃላት (am) (mäzgäbä ḳalat)
- Arabic: قَامُوس (ar) m (qāmūs), مُعْجَم (ar) m (muʕjam)
- Aragonese: diccionario m
- Aramaic: לכסיקון (leksiqon)
- Armenian: բառարան (hy) (baṙaran), բառգիրք (hy) (baṙgirkʻ) (rare)
- Old Armenian: բառգիրք (baṙgirkʻ)
- Aromanian: dictsiunar m, glusar n, lexico m
- Assamese: অভিধান (obhidhan)
- Asturian: diccionariu (ast) m
- Avar: словарь (slowarʲ), къамус (qxʼamus) (dated)
- Aymara: aru pirwa
- Azerbaijani: sözlük (az), lüğət (az)
- Bambara: daɲɛgafe
- Bashkir: һүҙлек
- Basque: hiztegi (eu)
- Belarusian: сло́ўнік (be) m (slóŭnik)
- Bengali: অভিধান (bn) (obhidhan), ডিকশনারী (bn) (ḍikośnari), ডিকশনারি (bn) (ḍikośnari)
- Bhojpuri: शब्दकोश (śabdakōś)
- Bikol Central: diksyunaryo
- Bourguignon: diccionâre m
- Breton: geriadur (br) m
- Bulgarian: ре́чник (bg) m (réčnik)
- Burmese: အဘိဓာန် (my) (a.bhi.dhan)
- Buryat: толи (toli)
- Carpathian Rusyn: сло́вник m (slóvnyk)
- Catalan: diccionari (ca) m
- Cebuano: diksyonaryo
- Chakma: 𑄇𑄧𑄙𑄖𑄢 (kadhātārā)
- Cham:
- Chamorro: diksinario, diksionario
- Chechen: словарь (slovarʲ), дошам (došam), лугӏат (luğat)
- Cherokee: ᏗᏕᏠᏆᏍᏙᏗ (didetloquasdodi)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 字典 (zi6 din2), 詞典/词典 (ci4 din2)
- Dungan: хуадян (huadi͡an), цыдян (cɨdi͡an), зыдян (zɨdi͡an) (character dictionary)
- Hakka: 字典 (sṳ-tién, si4 diên3)
- Hokkien: 字典 (zh-min-nan) (lī-tián / jī-tián), 詞典/词典 (sû-tián), 辭林/辞林 (sû-lîm)
- Mandarin: 字典 (zh) (zìdiǎn) (character dictionary), 詞典/词典 (zh) (cídiǎn), 辭典/辞典 (zh) (cídiǎn), 辭林/辞林 (zh) (cílín) (alternative forms)
- Wu: 字典 (6zy-ti), 詞典/词典 (6zy-ti)
- Choctaw: tikshạneli
- Chukchi: ысловар (yslovar), вэтгавкаԓекаԓ (vėtgavkaḷekaḷ)
- Chuvash: словарь (slovarʹ), сӑмахсен кӗнеки (sămahsen k̬ĕnek̬i), сӑмахсар (sămahsar)
- Cimbrian: bóartlibarn m, börtarpuach n
- Cornish: gerlyver m
- Corsican: dizziunariu (co) m
- Crimean Tatar: luğat, qamus
- Czech: slovník (cs) m, vokabulář (cs) m, lexikon m
- Danish: ordbog (da) c
- Dargwa: словарь (slovar’)
- Dhivehi: ރަދީފު (dv) (radīfu), ބަސްފޮތް (basfot̊)
- Dutch: woordenboek (nl) n, dictionaire (nl) m (formal)
- Dzongkha: ཚིག་མཛོད (tshig mdzod)
- Erzya: валкс (valks)
- Esperanto: vortaro (eo)
- Estonian: sõnaraamat (et), sõnastik (et)
- Evenki: турэ̄рук (turə̄ruk)
- Extremaduran: dicionariu m
- Faroese: orðabók (fo) f
- Finnish: sanakirja (fi)
- Forest Enets: словарь
- Franco-Provençal: diccionèro m
- French: dictionnaire (fr) m, dico (fr) m (informal)
- Middle French: dictionnaire m
- Frisian:
- Friulian: dizionari m
- Fula:
- Adlam: 𞤧𞤢𞤺𞥆𞤭𞤼𞤮𞤪𞤣𞤫
- Roman: saggitorde
- Gagauz: sözlük, laflık
- Galician: dicionario (gl) m
- Gallo: motiéer
- Georgian: ლექსიკონი (ka) (leksiḳoni)
- German: Wörterbuch (de) n, Diktionär (de) n or m (archaic), Dictionnaire (de) m or n
- Greek: λεξικό (el) n (lexikó)
- Greenlandic: ordbogi (kl)
- Guaraní: ñe'ẽndy (gn), ñe'ẽryru (gn), ñe'ẽrenda (gn)
- Guerrero Amuzgo: tzoⁿ 'tzítyui' jñ'o
- Gujarati: શબ્દકોશ (śabdakoś), અભિધાન (abhidhān)
- Haitian Creole: diksyonè
- Hausa: ƙamus (ha) m
- Hawaiian: puke wehewehe ʻōlelo
- Hebrew: מילון \ מִלּוֹן (he) m (milón)
- Hiligaynon: diksonaryo, kapulungan
- Hindi: शब्दकोश (hi) m (śabdakoś), शब्दकोष (hi) m (śabdakoṣ), कोश (hi) m (koś), डिक्शनरी (hi) (ḍikśanrī), डिश्कनरी (hi) f (ḍiśkanrī), शब्दसंग्रह (hi) m (śabdasaṅgrah), शब्दवारिधि (hi) m (śabdavāridhi), अभिधान (hi) m (abhidhān), अभिधानमाला (hi) m (abhidhānmālā), लुग़त m (luġat), लुग़ात m (luġāt), लुगत (hi) m (lugat), लुगात (hi) m (lugāt), फरहंग (hi) m (pharhaṅg), निघंटु (hi) m (nighaṇṭu), क़ामूस m (qāmūs)
- Hopi: lavaytutuveni
- Hungarian: szótár (hu)
- Hunsrik: Werterbuch n
- Icelandic: orðabók (is) f
- Ido: vortolibro (io), dicionario (io), lexiko (io), vortaro (io)
- Igbo: nkowaokwu
- Ilocano: diksionario
- Indonesian: kamus (id), bausastra (id), logat (id) (obsolete)
- Ingrian: sanakirja
- Ingush: дошлорг (došlorg)
- Interlingua: dictionario (ia)
- Inuktitut: ᕿᒥᕐᕈᐊᑦ ᐅᓐᓂᖅᑐᖅ ᒥᑦᓯ ᑐᑭᐊ (qimirroat onniqtoq mitsi tokia)
- Irish: foclóir (ga) m
- Italian: dizionario (it) m, lessico (it) m, vocabolario (it) m
- Japanese: 辞書 (ja) (じしょ, jisho), 字書 (ja) (じしょ, jisho), 辞典 (ja) (じてん, jiten), 字典 (ja) (じてん, jiten) (character dictionary), 字引 (ja) (じびき, jibiki) (character dictionary)
- Javanese:
- Carakan: ꦧꦲꦸꦱꦱ꧀ꦠꦿ (bahusastra)
- Rumi:bausastra
- Kabardian: словарь (slovarʲ), слъэвар (slˢɛvar), псалъалъэ (kbd) (psalˢalˢɛ)
- Kabyle: amawal
- Kalmyk: толь (tolʹ)
- Kannada: ನಿಘಂಟು (kn) (nighaṇṭu), ಅರ್ಥಕೋಶ (kn) (arthakōśa)
- Kapampangan: talabaldugan
- Karachay-Balkar: сёзлюк (sözlük)
- Karakalpak: soʻzlik
- Karelian: šanakirja, šanakniiga (South Karelian)
- Kashubian: słowôrz m
- Kavalan: ziting
- Kazakh: сөздік (kk) (sözdık), лұғат (lūğat)
- Khakas: сӧстік
- Khmer: វចនានុក្រម (km) (vĕəʼcaʼnaanukrɑm), បទានុក្រម (km) (paʼtiənukrɑm), អក្ខរក្រម (km) (ʼakkhaʼraa krɑm), អក្សរក្រម (ʼaksɑɑ krɑm)
- Kikuyu: kamusi
- Komi-Permyak: кывчукӧр (kyvćukör), кывкуд (kyvkud)
- Komi-Zyrian: кывчукӧр (kyvćukör), кывкуд (kyvkud), (please verify) словар (slovar)
- Konkani: (please verify) शब्दकोश (śabdakoś)
- Korean: 사전(辭典) (ko) (sajeon), 자서(字書) (ko) (jaseo), 자전(字典) (ko) (jajeon) (character dictionary), 옥편(玉篇) (ko) (okpyeon) (dated)
- Kumyk: сёзлюк (sözlük)
- Kurdish:
- Kven: sanakirja
- Kyrgyz: сөздүк (ky) (sözdük)
- Ladin: dizioner m
- Ladino: diksionario m
- Lak: словарь
- Lao: ວັດຈະນານຸກົມ (lo) (wat cha nā nu kom), ພົດຈະນານຸກົມ (phot cha nā nu kom)
- Latgalian: vuordineica f
- Latin: dictiōnārium (la) n, lexicon n
- Latvian: vārdnīca (lv) f
- Leonese: dicionariu m, palabreiru m
- Lezgi: гафарган (gafargan)
- Ligurian: dizionario m
- Limburgish: waordebook (li) n, waorsbook n, diksjenaer (li) m
- Lithuanian: žodynas (lt) m
- Livonian: sõnārōntõz
- Livvi: sanakniigu, sanakirju
- Lombard: dizionari (lmo) m
- Low German:
- Dutch Low German: woordenboek
- German Low German: Wöörbook n, Woordenbook n
- Lü: ᦈᦹᧈᦶᦑᧃ (ṫsue¹taen)
- Luhya: ekamusi
- Luxembourgish: Dictionnaire (lb) m, Wierderbuch (lb) n
- Macedonian: ре́чник (mk) m (réčnik), поимник m (poimnik), толковник m (tolkovnik), лексикон m (leksikon)
- Malagasy: rakibolana (mg), diksionary (mg)
- Malay: kamus (ms), buku katan, bausastera (ms)
- Malayalam: നിഘണ്ടു (ml) (nighaṇṭu), കോശം (ml) (kōśaṁ), പദാവലി (ml) (padāvali), ശബ്ദകോശം (ml) (śabdakōśaṁ), ഡിക്ഷണറി (ḍikṣaṇaṟi)
- Maltese: dizzjunarju (mt) m, miklem m, milsen m
- Manchu: ᠪᡠᠯᡝᡴᡠ
ᠪᡳᡨ᠌ᡥᡝ (buleku bithe), ᡥᡝᡵᡤᡝᠨ
ᡴᠣᠣᠯᡳ
ᠪᡳᡨ᠌ᡥᡝ (hergen kooli bithe), ᠪᡠᠯᡝᡴᡠ (buleku) - Manx: fockleyr m
- Maori: pukapuka taki kupu, papakupu (mi), tikinare
- Mapudungun: hemvlcijka
- Maranao: kamos
- Marathi: शब्दकोष m (śabdakoṣ), विश्वकोष m (viśvakoṣ)
- Mari:
- Marshallese: tūkjinede
- Mauritian Creole: diksioner
- Meru: kamusi
- Middle Persian: 𐭯𐭥𐭧𐭭𐭢 (pʿḥng /frahang/)
- Mirandese: dicionairo m
- Moksha: валкс (valks)
- Mon: အဘိဓာန် (mnw)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: толь бичиг (mn) (tolʹ bičig), толь (mn) (tolʹ)
- Mongolian: ᠲᠣᠯᠢ
ᠪᠢᠴᠢᠭ᠋ (toli bičig), ᠲᠣᠯᠢ (toli)
- Montagnais: aimun-mashinaikan
- Nahuatl: tlahtōltecpantiliztli (nah)
- Nanai: словарь (slowarʹ)
- Navajo: naaltsoos saad bee siʼánígíí
- Naxi: ceeqdiai
- Neapolitan: dezziunario m, dezziunàrio m
- Nenets:
- Tundra Nenets: словарь (slowarʹ°)
- Nepali: शब्दकोश (ne) (śabdakoś), शब्दकोष (śabdakoṣ)
- Newar: खँग्वःसफू (khãgwa:saphū)
- Newa: 𑐏𑑃𑐐𑑂𑐰𑑅𑐳𑐦𑐹 (khãgwaḥsaphū)
- Nogai: соьзлик (sözlik)
- Norman: dictiounnaire m (Guernsey), dictionnaithe m (Jersey)
- Northern Mansi: (please verify) словарь (slovarʹ)
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: diccionari (oc) m
- Odia: ଅଭିଧାନ (abhidhāna)
- Ojibwe: ikidowini-mazina'igan
- Old English: *wordbōc f
- Oromo: galmee jechootaa
- Ossetian:
- Ottoman Turkish: لغت (lüğat)
- Pannonian Rusyn: словнїк m inan (slovnjik)
- Papiamentu: dikshonario
- Pashto: وييپانګه f (wëyipānga), قاموس (ps) m (qāmus)
- Pennsylvania German: Waddebuch n
- Persian:
- Dari: لُغَتنَامَه (fa) (luğat-nāma), فَرْهَنْگ (fa) (farhang), وَاژَهنَامَه (fa) (wāža-nāma), لُغَت (fa) (luğat), قَامُوس (fa) (qāmūs)
- Iranian Persian: لُغَتنامِه (fa) (loğat-nâme), فَرْهَنْگ (fa) (farhang), واژِهنامِه (fa) (vâže-nâme), لُغَت (fa) (loğat), قاموس (fa) (ğâmus), فرهنگنامه (fa) (farhangnâme), کتاب لغت (ketâb-e loğat)
- Piedmontese: dissiunari m
- Plautdietsch: Wieedabuak n
- Polish: słownik (pl) m inan, leksykon (pl) m, dykcjonarz (pl) m inan (archaic), mównik (pl) m inan (obsolete), wokabularz (pl) m inan (obsolete)
- Portuguese: dicionário (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਸ਼ਬਦਕੋਸ਼ (pa) (śabdakoś), ਡਿਕਸ਼ਨਰੀ (ḍikśanarī)
- Quechua: simi qullqa
- Romani:
- Balkan: avazari m (Bugurdži), dikcionari m (Ursari), lavustik f (Arli)
- Baltic: lavengiiri lilvari (Latvian), lavengiiro lil (Latvian), slovaŕo m (North Russian), lavēngiro lyl (Litovska)
- Carpathian: alavengeri kenva, alavni keňva (East Slovak)
- Kalo Finnish: laavesko liin
- Sinte: rakêrpaskêro lil
- Vlax: alavari, alavar m (Lovari), dikcjonari m (Kalderash), rečniko m (Gurbet, Kalderash)
- Welsh: lavengo lil
- Romanian: dicționar (ro) n, vorbar (ro) m or n (dated)
- Romansch: pledari m, dicziunari m, vocabulari m, glossari m
- Russian: слова́рь (ru) m inan (slovárʹ), лексико́н (ru) m inan (leksikón)
- Rwanda-Rundi: inkoranya class 9
- Sakizaya: zitin
- Sami:
- Inari: sänikirje
- Lule: báhkogirjje
- Northern: sátnegirji
- Skolt: sääʹnnǩeʹrjj
- Southern: baakoegærja
- Samoan: lolomifefiloi
- Samogitian: žuodīns m
- Sanskrit: शब्दकोश (sa) m (śabdakośa), निघण्टु (sa) m (nighaṇṭu), अभिधान (sa) n (abhidhāna), शब्दसंग्रह (sa) m (śabdasaṃgraha)
- Sardinian: dizionariu m
- Scots: dictionar
- Scottish Gaelic: faclair m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Seychellois Creole: diksyoner
- Shona: duramahwi, duramazwi
- Shor: сӧстӱк (söstük)
- Sicilian: dizziunariu (scn) m, vocabbulariu m
- Silesian: dykcjůnoř m, dykcjōnorz m
- Sindhi: (please verify) لُغَتُ (sd), کوش (koś), فَرھَنگَ (farhanga)
- Sinhalese: ශබ්ද කෝෂය (śabda kōṣaya), ශබ්දකෝෂය (si) (śabdakōṣaya)
- Slovak: slovník (sk) m, lexikón (sk) m
- Slovene: slovar (sl) m
- Somali: qaamuus (so), abwan-ka
- Sorbian:
- Sotho: bukantswe (st) class 9, tikishinare class 9
- Southern Altai: сӧзлик (sözlik)
- Southern Ohlone: riica pappel
- Southern Selkup: э̄җефат (Narym)
- Spanish: diccionario (es) m
- Sranan Tongo: wortubuku
- Swabian: Werdrbuach
- Swahili: kamusi (sw) class 9
- Swazi: sichazamagama class 7
- Swedish: ordbok (sv) c, ordlista (sv) c, lexikon (sv) n
- Tabasaran: словарь (slovarʼ)
- Tachawit: amawal (shy)
- Tagalog: talatinigan (tl), talahuluganan (tl), diksyunaryo (tl), diksiyonaryo (tl)
- Tajik: луғат (tg) (luġat), фарҳанг (tg) (farhang), қомус (qomus), луғатнома (luġatnoma), вожанома (vožanoma)
- Tamil: அகரமுதலி (ta) (akaramutali), அகராதி (ta) (akarāti), நிகண்டு (ta) (nikaṇṭu)
- Tashelhit: amawal
- Tifinagh: ⴰⵎⴰⵡⴰⵍ (amawal)
- Tatar: сүзлек (tt) (süzlek)
- Telugu: నిఘంటువు (te) (nighaṇṭuvu), పదకోశము (te) (padakōśamu), శబ్దకోశము (te) (śabdakōśamu)
- Tetum: disionáriu
- Thai: พจนานุกรม (th) (pót-jà-naa-nú-grom), ดิกชันนารี (dìk-chan-naa-rîi), ดิก (th) (dìk), ปทานุกรม (th) (bpà-taa-nú-grom)
- Tibetan: ཚིག་མཛོད (tshig mdzod), ཚིག་གཞུང (tshig gzhung), མིང་མཛོད (ming mdzod), དག་ཡིག (dag yig)
- Tigrinya: መዝገበ ቃላት (mäzgäbä ḳalat)
- Tok Pisin: dikseneri (tpi)
- Tongan: tikisinale
- Tulu: ಕೋಶ (kōśa)
- Turkish: sözlük (tr), lügat (tr) (obsolete)
- Turkmen: sözlük
- Tuvan: словарь (slovarʹ), сөстүк (söstük)
- Udmurt: словарь (slovar), кыллюкам (kylľukam), кылсузьет (kylsuźjet)
- Ukrainian: словни́к (uk) m (slovnýk)
- Urdu: لُغَت (ur) f (luġat), ڈِکْشَنْری f (ḍikśanrī), فَرْہَن٘گ ? (farhaṅg), شَبْدَکوش m (śabdakoś), شَبْد کوش m (śabd koś), قامُوس (ur) m (qāmūs), معجم (mu'jam), فَرْہَن٘گ نامہ (farhang-nāma), لغت نامہ (luġat-nāma)
- Uyghur: لۇغەت (ug) (lughet), سۆزلۈك (ug) (sözlük)
- Cyrillic: луғәт (lughet)
- Uzbek: lugʻat (uz), soʻzlik (uz), qomus (uz)
- Venda: ṱhalusamaipfi
- Venetian: disionario m, galepìn (vec) m
- Veps: vajehnik
- Vietnamese: từ điển (vi) (詞典), tự điển (vi) (字典 (vi)) (dated, character dictionary)
- Volapük: vödabuk (vo), vödasbuk (older term, now obsolete; compare Wörterbuch)
- Võro: synaraamat, sõnaraamat
- Votic: sõnatširjõ
- Wallisian: tikisionalio
- Walloon: motî (wa)
- Welsh: geiriadur (cy) m
- Wolof: baatukaay, diksoneer
- Xhosa: idikshinari class 9
- Yakut: тылдьыт (tıljıt)
- Yiddish: ווערטערבוך (yi) n (verterbukh)
- Yoruba: àtúmọ̀-èdè
- Zazaki: vatebend m, ferheng (diq)
- Zhuang: sawloih, swzdenj
- Zulu: isichazimazwi class 4, isichazamazwi class 7, idikishaneli
Translations to be checked
- Low German:
- German Low German: (please verify) Weerderbook n
dictionary (third-person singular simple present dictionaries, present participle dictionarying, simple past and past participle dictionaried)
- (transitive) To look up in a dictionary.
- (transitive) To add to a dictionary.
1866, William Henry Ward, The international day, night, and fog signal telegraph, page 12:
By a reference to the following dictionaried abbreviations, the simplicity and harmony of each sentence will be manifestly apparent; although it does not embrace everything, and could not, as it would be far too voluminous for general use.
2001, The Michigan Alumnus, page 25:
Should I use a word that a lot of people use but isn't in the dictionary? Uncle Phil would rather get a root canal than say he was scrapbooking, because the word isn't dictionaried.
- (intransitive, rare) To compile a dictionary.
1864, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 96, page 334:
They [dictionary-makers] may have had their romance at home — may have been crossed in love, and thence driven to dictionarying; may have been involved in domestic tragedies — who can say?
- dictionary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- dictionary (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “dictionary”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.