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dictionary (EN)
noun

noun “dictionary”

Singular dictionary, Plural dictionaries
  1. a book or electronic resource that lists words from one or more languages in alphabetical order, providing meanings, pronunciations, and other information
    She bought a French-English dictionary to help her with her language studies.
  2. in computing, a way to store data so that each piece of information is linked to a specific key, making it easy to find
    In the program, we used a dictionary to store each student's ID as the key and their name as the value.