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Definition of Dictionary

Dictionary

  1. A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
  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.

Dictionary Quotations

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Vince Lombardi

Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you're willing to pay the price.
Vince Lombardi

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
Khalil Gibran

The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
Billy Graham
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Dictionary Translations

dictionary in Afrikaans is woordeboek
dictionary in Danish is ordbog
dictionary in Dutch is woordenboek
dictionary in French is lexique, dictionnaire
dictionary in Italian is lessico, elenco, dizionario
dictionary in Norwegian is ordbok
dictionary in Spanish is catalogo, diccionario, lexico
dictionary in Swedish is lexikon, ordbok

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