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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Collins Robert French Dictionary: French-English English-French

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Oxford-Monsudar English-Mongolian Dictionary by Luvsandori, Amarsanaa

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“ Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world. ...more ”
― Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene

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“ How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm? ...more ”
― Mike Tucker, Doctor Who: The Nightmare of Black Island

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