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
Oxford Dictionary of English
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
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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