translation dictionary

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noun

a dictionary that translates words from one language to another, as a bilingual dictionary, or to several languages, as a multilingual dictionary. Bilingual dictionaries published as print books are often divided into two separate sections, one giving translations, for example, from French words to their English meanings and the other translating from English words to their French equivalents. Multilingual dictionaries tend to show translations into multiple languages across a two-page spread.

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ARE YOU A TRUE BLUE CHAMPION OF THESE "BLUE" SYNONYMS?

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Question 1 of 8

Which of the following words describes “sky blue”?

navy

beryl

azure

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Origin of translation dictionary

First recorded in 1815–20

Words nearby translation dictionary

transketolation, transl., translanguaging, translate, translation, translation dictionary, translation of axes, translative, translator, transliterate, transliteration

How to use translation dictionary in a sentence

One is, of course, inevitably up against the problem of translation when speaking of names.
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The definition of “innuendo,” according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, is “an oblique allusion.”
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The translation agency only advertises for girls with “no complexes”: code for being prepared to bed the client.
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A look at the new translation of the works of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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In fact, my Random House Dictionary goes so far as to define it.
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He prepared a glossary of provincial and archological words, intended for a supplement to Johnson's Dictionary.
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In the following words, the vowels have no figure value, hence in translation are never counted.
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Christopher Smart, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died; known by a popular translation of Horace.
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And when they came to the next story the Boy took pleasure in doing his own hunting in the dictionary.
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His sayings come to us through several hands, and through more than one translation.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford