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a book or electronic resource that gives a list of the words of a language in alphabetical order and explains what they mean, or gives a word for them in a foreign language 詞典；字典；辭書 a Spanish-English dictionary 西班牙語–英語詞典 a slang dictionary 俚語詞典 a dictionary of slang 俚語詞典 - in a dictionary
If you don't know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary. 不懂某個詞的意思，就查查詞典。
WordfinderExtra ExamplesTopics Educationa1I couldn't find the word in the dictionary. 我在詞典中找不到這個詞。 You need a dictionary to understand what he's saying half the time. 有一半時間你需要靠字典才能聽懂他的話。 a way of teaching children how to use dictionaries 一種教孩子們使用詞典的方法
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a book that explains the words that are used in a particular subject 專業術語大全；專業詞典 a dictionary of mathematics 數學詞典 I decided to consult a medical dictionary. 我決定去查醫學詞典。
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a list of words in electronic form, for example stored in a computer’s spellchecker 電子詞典 Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- good
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Word Originearly 16th cent.: from medieval Latin dictionarium (manuale) or dictionarius (liber) ‘manual or book of words’, from Latin dictio, from dicere ‘to say’.