English dictionary

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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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noun

• English dictionaries
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Etymology

Origin of English dictionary

First recorded in 1720–30

Example Sentences

Major Japanese newspaper Mainichi in its obituary credited Kaji for starting the puzzle sections at bookstores, as well as introducing the word “Sudoku” into the Oxford English dictionary.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2021

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 word, "covfefe", was not included in any English dictionary.

From BBC • May 9, 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

Why did he need an English dictionary if he could not understand a word of English?

From Nobody's Girl (En Famille) by Crewe-Jones, Florence