noun “dictionary”
Singular dictionary, Plural dictionaries
- a book or electronic resource that lists words from one or more languages in alphabetical order, providing meanings, pronunciations, and other information
Mellen Iech un, fir d'Iwwersetzungen vun den Beispillsätz an d'monolingual Definitioune vun all Wuert ze gesinn.
She bought a French-English dictionary to help her with her language studies.
- 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.