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.


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