A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions arranged in alphabetical order. In an English dictionary you'll find words beginning with ‘a’ at the front and ‘z’ at the back. There ...

Do you know what bilingual dictionary is? When we hear the word dictionary we usually think of it as some bulky books, but what we fail to realise is that these books are a treasure of knowledge for ...

l An early non-alphabetical list of 8000 English words was the Elementarie, created by Richard Mulcaster in 1592. l The first English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written by ...

Dictionary-making has never been easy. When lexicographers started compiling what eventually became the Oxford English Dictionary in 1879, they estimated that alphabetically putting down every English ...