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[ing-glish dik-shuh-ner-ee, ing-lish] / ˈɪŋ glɪʃ ˈdɪk ʃəˌnɛr i, ˈɪŋ lɪʃ /

noun

• English dictionaries
  plural

1. a dictionary in which most of the entry words and all of their definitions, as well as supplementary material, are in English; a monolingual English dictionary, such as Dictionary.com. Terms from other languages that are commonly used by speakers of English are given language labels and often the foreign as well as Anglicized pronunciations.

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Etymology

Origin of English dictionary

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

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English dictionary

"This word is very old school and it's time to abolish the R-word out of the English dictionary."

From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2023

Whether real people or AI are behind the proliferating hyphens, I believe some retraining or reprogramming based on an English dictionary is warranted.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 9, 2022

Macquarie Dictionary, an Australian English dictionary, had also chosen “cancel culture” for its Word of the Year after holding a vote for the public.

From Fox News ● Dec. 2, 2019

The sequence of words is meaningless: a random array strung together by an algorithm let loose in an English dictionary.

From New York Times ● Jan. 16, 2018

It is not too much to say that no other English dictionary, and no special treatise on English etymology, that has yet appeared, can compare with it.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various