DICTIONARY

[noun] [C] - a book in which words are listed alphabetically and their meanings, either in the same language or in another language, and other information about them, are givena French-English/English-French dictionarya dictionary of scienceMany dictionaries are now available on CD-ROM.If you want to know how a word is spelt, look it up in a dictionary.A dictionary can also be a book which gives information about a particular subject, in which the entries are given in alphabetical order.a biographical dictionarya dictionary of quotations