Words similar to dictionary
- dice
- dicom
- dicon
- dicta
- dictates
- dictators
- dictean
- diction
- dictionarie
- dictionaries
- dictionaries--because
- dictionaries--especially
- dictionaries--or
- dictionaries—inside
- dictionaries—particularly
- dictionary
- dictionary-
- dictionary--
- dictionary--a
- dictionary--even
- dictionary--now
- dictioned
- dictionnaire
- dictyostelium
- dictéon
- did
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Example sentences for: dictionary
How can you use “dictionary” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:
I added this to the forthcoming edition of Random House Webster's College Dictionary , but it took a tremendous amount of effort to define.
Entries like that for Howard in the Dictionary of First Names hardly encourage me to take the main body of the book seriously.
One might regard it as a popular combination of Carl Darling Buck's A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages (1949 and 1988) and A Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (1933), both University of Chicago Press, with something of Edward Pinkerton's Word for Word , Verbatim Books (1982), and my Suffixes and Word-Final Elements of English (1982) and Prefixes and Word-Initial Elements of English (1984), both Gale Research, thrown in.
Webster's New World Dictionary gives this as one of several definitions for medium: a means of communication that reaches the general public and carries advertising.
However, a previous meaning is given in Grove's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1796): sweet heart, a girl's lover or a man's mistress.