A repository, esp. of knowledge or information. Originally as the name of a dictionary encompassing several languages.

The Gradus ad Parnassum, ‘a step to Parnassus’, a dictionary of prosody formerly used in British public schools. Hence: any later work of similar…

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language; an edition or abridgement of this work.

absol. A copy of the ‘unabridged edition’ of Webster's Dictionary.

Oxford English Dictionary.

Any of various English dictionaries published by Oxford University Press; (sometimes) spec. the Oxford English Dictionary.

H. W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, first published in 1926; an edition or abridgement of this work, especially taken as the…