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.

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Collins Robert French Dictionary: French-English English-French

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Elie Wiesel
I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly as language became an obstacle…. Writing in my mother tongue—at that point close to extinction—I would pause at every sentence, and start over and over again…. All the dictionary had to offer seemed meager, pale, lifeless.
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