Meanings
plural dictionnaries
- obsoleteObsolete spelling of dictionary.
- misspellingnon-native speakers' EnglishMisspelling of dictionary.
I have no modern dictionnary on hand. But I used to understand ethnocide as the volontary destruction of a culture.
1999 July 23, jean lastennet, “breton music”, in soc.culture.breton (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 20222 more examples
I'd expect the first one to be faster, since the lookup of a key in a dictionnary is O(1), and insertion is a dictionnary is roughly O(1) too, whereas bisect_left is O(log(N)), and inserting in the middle of a list is O(N).
2002 May 16, Alexandre Fayolle, “sorted list vs dictionnary”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022So I export my dictionnary from my "old" application and I obtain them in a format *.LEX that is recognized on my computer like an "Indesign Dictionnary File"
2003 February 11, BATTISTELLI Laurent, “dictionnary”, in adobe.indesign.windows (Usenet), retrieved 04 Jun 2022
Origin
- Frenchdictionnaire
- Englishdictionnary
As a mistake of second-language speakers, primarily from French dictionnaire.
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dictionnary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictionnary
“dictionnary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictionnary. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dictionnary,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictionnary.
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