glossarize

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verb

To provide (a work) with a glossary.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

verbglossarize (third-person singular simple present glossarizes, present participle glossarizing, simple past and past participle glossarized)

present singular third person glossarizes · participle present glossarizing · participle past glossarized · past glossarized

  1. transitiveTo provide (a work) with a glossary.

    It is to be expected that linguists should wish to glossarize the terms of their own science.

    2019, William Bright, Linguistics in North America, 1, page 158
    1 more example

    I was asked to glossarize it and I refused to do so, arguing that by the time someone comes to the end of the novel they'll know what it is about. They'll know the names of the various avatars of Ganesh, for example.

    2013, Kit Dobson, Smaro Kamboureli, Producing Canadian Literature

Origin

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APA

glossarize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glossarize

MLA

“glossarize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glossarize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “glossarize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/glossarize.

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