Definition of Dictionary

Dictator

DICTIONARY noun

	A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. This dictionary, however, is a most useful work.

		definition from: *The Devil's Dictionary* by Ambrose Bierce, 1911

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Regular definition:

DICTIONARY:
?d?k??nr? n. (pl. -ies) 1 a book that lists (usu. in alphabetical order) and explains the words of a language or gives equivalent words in another language. 2 a reference book on any subject, the items of which are arranged in alphabetical order (dictionary of architecture). [med.L dictionarium (manuale manual) & dictionarius (liber book) f. L dictio (as DICTION)]

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