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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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
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Collins Robert French Dictionary: French-English English-French

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suffuse, v. I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.
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