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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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Oxford Dictionary of English
The New Oxford American Dictionary
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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Collins Robert French Dictionary: French-English English-French

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Ambrose Bierce
Dictionary, n. A malevolent literacy device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic.
Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Joyce Carol Oates
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.
Joyce Carol Oates, The Tattooed Girl

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