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Dictionaries
A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), with usage of information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, translation, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon.
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Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
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― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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Though words sometimes puzzled Alma, she never looked up any word in any dictionary; a word was like a pebble to be turned briefly in the hand, and tossed away, with no expectation that it would be encountered again.
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― The Tattooed Girl
― The Tattooed Girl
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