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    [Noun]  | "dic*tio*nary" | \ ˈdik-shə-ˌner-ē \


    1: a reference source in print or electronic form containing words usually alphabetically arranged along with information about their forms, pronunciations, functions, etymologies, meanings, and syntactic and idiomatic uses

    2: a reference book listing alphabetically terms or names important to a particular subject or activity along with discussion of their meanings and applications

    3: a reference book listing alphabetically the words of one language and showing their meanings or translations in another language


    Origin: 1526 ;

     Borrowed from Medieval Latin dictiōnārium, name for an alphabetized guide to the Vulgate, earlier dictiōnārius, name for a Latin textbook in which words are grouped by topic (apparently coined by its author, the 13th-century English-born university teacher John of Garland), from Latin dictiōn-, dictiō "speech, (in grammar) word, expression" + -ārius, -ārium {see: |-ary:1|-ary:1} {mat|diction|};

    [Noun]  | "dictionary" 


    1: a reference book giving information about the meanings, pronunciations, uses, and origins of words listed in alphabetical order;


      * e.g., " ... try to develop the habit of going to the dictionary whenever you encounter an unfamiliar word "



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     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: this.

      * e.g.,  ... Weird person: "When you look up 'dictionary' in the dictionary, it just says 'this'." 

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: A very large book full of information about how words are spelled, pronounced, used in a sentence etc.

      * e.g.,  ... Although originally intended for reading, the dictionary serves many functions: it can be used as... 

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: Welcome to the Urban DICKtionary! Here you find lots of f*cked up sh*t that as*holes b*tches wrote and checked by the websites f*cked up people.

      * e.g.,  ... Urban Dictionary is a piece of sh*t. 

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: A book without the word gullible in it...

      * e.g.,  ... Gullible Person 1: Did you know that 'gullible' isn't in the dictionary? 

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: book that thinks its always right.......

      * e.g.,  ... lets go to the dictionary for help 

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: "You're an ass hole" (Demetri Martin)

      * e.g.,  ... You're an asshole for looking up the word dictionary within a dictionary. 

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: >...:"What do you think you are looking at right now! What are you, some kind of smart-ass? Now log-off, get back to work and quit fooling around!!":...<

      * e.g.,  ... "In one of Mr. Webster's early editions of his dictionary, he defined "freedom" as: '...deviation from the norm!'" 

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1:  Bible of the religion "spelling bee"

      * e.g.,  ... the spelling bee contestant vowed that he memorize the dictionary 


     [ "dictionary" ]

    2:  A thick book loaded with words an average individual will probably never use in her/her life

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: The standard dictionary is a great way to get everyone to think and act the same way. It defines terms the way the writers like Webster want people to accept the words. Once the words are locked in as meaningful, the next step is the encyclopedia. This is all condoned by the Church, State, Military, Industrial, Education, Crime, Pseudo-Crime fighting masses to control everyone for the writer's own advantage and stop change. If anyone has a different definition of a word, one of the above mentioned group members says, "that is not the meaning of the word." So we all end up thinking and acting the same way, killing each other and burning up the world. Words are much more tricky than people think. Most people think "Peace" is the opposit of "War," because that is what the "dictionary," says; but nothing has lead to "War," more than "Peace." Either way one looses, when one follows the standard dictionary, encyclopedia, church. state, military, industrial, crime, pseudo crime fighting worded way. In the beginning was not "The Word," it was, "What was." Words are hints to get us where we need to go. If one accepts them totally as given by the standard dictionary, one is a word fundamentalist, which leads to other fundamentalist wars such as we now have.

      * e.g.,  ... "Eddie looked it up in the dictionary, that prooves he's right." Despite the fact that none of these words have any absolute meaning. 

     [ "dictionary" ]

    1: An English language reference that was obviously not consulted by any of the previous writers, based on their multiple grammatical and spelling errors.

      * e.g.,  ... ) "Your" used in place of you are (you're).  

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