dictionnary

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A form of dictionary — A reference work listing words or names from one or more languages, usually ordered alphabetically, explaining each term's meanings or senses, often also containing information on its etymology, pronunciation, usage, semantic relations, translations, as well as other relevant information.

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Meanings

noundictionnary (plural dictionnaries)

plural dictionnaries

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of dictionary.
  2. 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 2022
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    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 2022

    So 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

  1. Frenchdictionnaire
  2. Englishdictionnary

As a mistake of second-language speakers, primarily from French dictionnaire.

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Cite this entry
APA

dictionnary. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictionnary

MLA

“dictionnary.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictionnary. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “dictionnary,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dictionnary.

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