What is a dictionary?

Question

And how do I use it?

Answer 1

look it up in a dictionary

Answer 2

A dictionary is a book
You use it to tell you the meaning of words
for example, look up the word 'dictionary' (the words are all in alphabetical order - if you are not sure what alphabetical order is, why don't you post another question on yahoo answers,). Next to the word dictionary it will tell you it's a book that gives meanings of words.
Then you can have language dictionaries. Suppose you had an English-French dictionary and you wanted to know how to say 'thank you' in French. Go to the English into French half of the dictionary, find 'thank you' and it will tell you 'merci'.
If you came across a French word and you wanted to know what it meant in English, you go to the French into English half of the dictionary, look up the word and it will tell you what that word is in English. Suppose you wanted to know what fromage meant in English, the dictionary will tell you it means cheese.

Answer 3

a dictionary is a book used to look up words you don't know how to spell and what they mean. All the words are listed in alphabetical order. But really i cant tell if this is a serious question or not, lol.

Answer 4

A dictionary is an anthology of words. It tells you how to spell them, what the meanings are, their tenses (past, present, future), and gives examples of how they are used in a sentence.
A dictionary is alphabetical, meaning it is in a-b-c order. Obviously, a is in the front and z is in the back. So if you were going to have to look up, *monkey*, you would look in the middle, because m is the in middle. Hope it helped!

Answer 5

A dictionary is a book with meanings wich this question has no meaning to it.

Answer 6

its a big book which contains all the vocabs of a given language put in an alphabetical order

to use this book you must first get a word that you don't understand its meaning and try to find it

note : use a dictionary that translates into a language you know

do you understand what does it mean the word (book) or should i explain it?!

Answer 7

A dictionary is a compliation of accepted commonly used words and their meanings, it is in an alphabetical nature, If you wanted to look up a word, for example BOOK, you flick through until you get to B then search through till you get to BO then carry on until BOO and again until you find BOOK, its that easy...have fun!

Answer 8

a dictionary is a book filled with words,that are in alphabetical order, and explains the meaning of each word. You use it by looking for the first letter of you word you lookin up and then the next and the next

Answer 9

You probably need one to get the definition of dictionary

Answer 10

Oh no you did not ask this question! How old are you? If you can use the Internet and not know what a dictionary is, something is truly wrong! TRULY WRONG!