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WordBand 6.5–8Academic (NAWL)
dictionary
/ˈdɪkʃəˌnɛɹi/
noun
a book with the spellings and meanings of many words
- “I really need an easy to carry dictionary that's compact.”Tatoeba
- “The dictionary is somewhere among all those books over there.”Tatoeba
Sentences from Tatoeba show real usage. A word can have several meanings, so a sentence may use another one.
Source: New Academic Word List (Browne, Culligan & Phillips) (CC BY-SA 4.0); Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0); Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0 FR)