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Dictionary

A dictionary is a listing of words or lexemes—typically base forms—from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc. It is a…

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Dictionary

Nodes235
Edges234
Triples362
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.008511
Components1

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related to history · 86
Dictionary → Abbasid Arabs, According, Ahmad, Akkadian, Akkadian Empire, Al-Khalil, Al-Zamakhshari, Amarakośa, Amarasimha, Amir Khusro, Anatolian Turkish, Apollonius, Arab, Arabic, Aramaic, Atsiz, Ayn, Babylonian, Bahşayiş Lügati, BCE
related to References · 70
Dictionary → Amsterdam, Archived, Atkins, Brief History, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Cho, Craft, Crowthorne, December, Dictionaries, Dictionary Making, English Lexicography, Erdmann, Germany, Gunter Narr Verlag, HarperPerennial, Henning, Insanity, ISBN
related to American English dictionaries · 34
Dictionary → American, American English, American Noah Webster, An American Dictionary, Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, As, At, British, Cambridge, Compendious Dictionary, Encyclopedia Britannica, English, English Language, France, French, German, Greek, He, Hebrew
related to Further reading · 24
Dictionary → American English, An, Atlantic Monthly Press, English, Etudes Americaines, Fatsis, First, Forgue, Guy Jean, ISBN, Issue, Modern Dictionary, New York, November, OCLC, Retrieved, Revue Française, Stefan, The Norm, The Thrill
related to English dictionaries in Britain · 23
Dictionary → An, Bodleian Library, Cawdrey's, Chesterfield, Dictionarius, Dutch, Earl, Elementarie, English, Englishman, French, Garland, Germans, John, Latin, Oxford, Philip Stanhope, Richard Mulcaster, Robert Cawdrey, Spanish
related to Specialized dictionaries · 20
Dictionary → According, African American National Biography, American National Biography, Another, Computer, English Etymology, Europe, Following, For, In, Inter-Active Terminology, Internet Terms, Manual, Oxford Dictionary, Project, Specialized Lexicographies, The Bilingual LSP Dictionary, The Oxford Dictionary, World Religions, Yadgar Dictionary
related to Major English dictionaries · 19
Dictionary → American, American EnglishOxford Dictionary, Australian EnglishMerriam-Webster, BarnhartThe American Heritage Dictionary, Clarence, Contemporary English, DictionaryCollins English DictionaryConcise Oxford, English DictionaryLongman Dictionary, English Language, English LanguageBlack's Law Dictionary, English LanguageWebster's New World, EnglishOxford English Dictionary, FableCanadian Oxford DictionaryCentury DictionaryChambers, LongmanMacmillan DictionaryMacquarie Dictionary, OED/O, Phrase, Random House Dictionary, Samuel Johnson, The American College Dictionary
related to Prescriptive vs. descriptive · 17
Dictionary → American, American English, American Heritage, British English, Encarta, English, English-speaking, Large, Lexicographers, Merriam-Webster, Most, Noah Webster, OED, Oxford English Dictionary, Similarly, This, Webster's Third
related to Pronunciation · 14
Dictionary → American English, American Heritage Dictionary, British Commonwealth, British English, DIK-shə-nerr-ee, DIK-shə-nər-ee, English, For, In, International Phonetic Alphabet, Some, The IPA, Wikipedia, Yet
related to Dictionaries for natural language processing · 10
Dictionary → Because, CLIR, Diathesis, In, ISO, Lexical Markup Framework, LMF, NLP, Such, The

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Important terminology

dictionaries english words language first published american century oxford languages descriptive also new specialized written used prescriptive use many glossary

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Dictionaryis alisting of words or lexemes0.90text
Dictionaryis aspecific kind of descriptive dictionary which describes the development of words and senses over time0.90text
the Oxford English Dictionaryinstance ofLarge 20th-century dictionaries0.80text
hi taharóg otí kshetiré me asíti lamkhonítinstance ofThis internal conflict results in absurd sentences0.80text
Dictionaryrelated to American English dictionariesIn0.60section
Dictionaryrelated to American English dictionariesAmerican Noah Webster0.60section
Dictionaryrelated to American English dictionariesCompendious Dictionary0.60section
Dictionaryrelated to American English dictionariesEnglish Language0.60section
Dictionaryrelated to American English dictionariesWebster0.60section
Dictionaryrelated to American English dictionariesAn American Dictionary0.60section
Dictionaryrelated to American English dictionariesTo0.60section
Dictionaryrelated to American English dictionariesOld English0.60section

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