Synonyms and antonyms of Dictionaries and making dictionaries in British Thesaurus

concordance (noun)

an alphabetical list of the words used in a book or piece of writing, often showing examples of how each word is used in a sentence

corpus (noun)

linguistics a collection of written and spoken language stored on computer and used for language research and writing dictionaries

definition (noun)

a statement of what a word or expression means

dictionary (noun)

a reference resource which provides information about words and their meanings, uses, and pronunciations. A dictionary may be published as a printed book, or as a digital product such as a website or app, and it may be monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual.

dictionary (noun)

a book, website or other resource that lists words in one language and gives translations in another

example (noun)

a phrase or sentence in a dictionary that shows the way that a word is used. It usually follows the definition (=the explanation of the meaning).

headword (noun)

one of the list of words in a dictionary that is followed by an explanation of what it means

lemma (noun)

linguistics a form of a word that appears as a headword in a dictionary, for example 'break' or 'person'

lemmatization (noun)

the process of reducing different forms of a word back to their base form, the lemma, for example 'breaking' or 'broke' back to 'break'

lemmatize (verb)

to reduce different forms of a word back to their base form, the lemma, for example 'breaking' or 'broke' back to 'break'

lemmatizer (noun)

a computer program that reduces different forms of a word back to their base form, the lemma

lexicography (noun)

the job of writing a dictionary

lexicon (noun)

old-fashioned a dictionary

the OED ()

the Oxford English Dictionary: a very large dictionary that contains historical information about words in the English language