Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lexicon, vocabulary, or dictionary.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A book containing words with their explanations, arranged in alphabetical or other regular order; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
dictionary or otherreference book thatlists words ; alexicon ,vocabulary . - noun The
libretto of anopera .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a reference book containing words (usually with their meanings)
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the Bible is hard to understand, that is an important clue - not that we should get a Bible wordbook and begin looking for words that sound like the name of a president, but that we should instead put effort into learning the relevant languages, history and other such background materials.
Demystifying the Bible James F. McGrath 2009
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In my wordbook objective means “undistorted by emotion or personal bias” and “based on observable phenomena.”
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Some of the sub-directories contain resources for the basic running of OpenOffice. org, such as/database (the default bibliography database),/LastSession (autorecovery after crashes), psprint (printing) and/wordbook (the default dictionary).
Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community 2010
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Well, it hasn't been published yet - but the idea of a recessional wordbook has got potential.
Irish Blogs 2008
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[A new light is thrown upon this favourite expression of Pepys's when speaking of his wife by the following quotation from a Midland wordbook: "Wretch, n., often used as an expression of endearment or sympathy.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 53: May 1667 Samuel Pepys 1668
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[A new light is thrown upon this favourite expression of Pepys's when speaking of his wife by the following quotation from a Midland wordbook: "Wretch, n., often used as an expression of endearment or sympathy.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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[A new light is thrown upon this favourite expression of Pepys's when speaking of his wife by the following quotation from a Midland wordbook: "Wretch, n., often used as an expression of endearment or sympathy.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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[A new light is thrown upon this favourite expression of Pepys's when speaking of his wife by the following quotation from a Midland wordbook: "Wretch, n., often used as an expression of endearment or sympathy.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May 1667 Pepys, Samuel 1667
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