Translation
dictionary; vocabulary
Examples
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I looked up the word in the dictionary.
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Do you have a good dictionary?
lernanto.
His vocabulary is rich for a young learner.
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The new dictionary contains ten thousand words.
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Without a dictionary I cannot translate that sentence.
is plus the -- suffix, which collects things into a set: gives for a forest, gives for humanity, gives for a staircase. So a dictionary is literally a collection of words, and the same noun does duty for a person's vocabulary - context sorts out which you mean. The suffix is one of the most productive in the language, and once it clicks you stop learning compound nouns and start deriving them.
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