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a book or electronic resource that lists the words of a language (typically in alphabetical order) and gives their meaning, or gives the equivalent words in a different language, often also providing information about pronunciation, origin, and usage.

"I'll look up ‘love’ in the dictionary"

synonyms:lexicon , wordbook , word list, glossary ; 

thesaurus

"if they don't understand what a word means, then they can look it up in the dictionary"

• a reference work on a particular subject, the items of which are typically arranged in alphabetical order.

  "a dictionary of quotations"

• COMPUTING

  a set of words or other text strings made for use in applications such as spelling checkers.

  "the worm attempts to crack account passwords using a built-in dictionary"