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WHAT Is A DICTIONARY Dictionaries let a terrier ter e ar n a usually small dog origi nally used by hunters to force animals from student know whether their holes a word is a noun word history verb adjective or terrier another part of Terriers were first used in hunt ing Their job was to dig for speech In many dic small animals and force them from their holes The word terri tionaries synonyms er comes from a medieval and antonyms for French phrase chen terrer or chien terrier literally earth dog The terr in ter words are given Syn rier comes ultimately from Latin terra earth onyms are words that Some dictionaries provide the history of a mean the same as the word to show how it became part of the word you are looking language up while antonyms have the opposite meaning Many dictionaries include drawings to help you understand what a word means Good dictionaries are available for all ages Pronounce means to make and reading levels the proper sound of a letter or
How Do I USE A DICTIONARY keyhole killer ment with a row of keys like that of a piano 3 the whole arrangement of keys as on a com puter or typewriter key hole Vke holn a hole for receiving a key key note ke note 1 the first tone of a scale fundamental to harmony 2 the fundamental fact idea or mood key stone Vke ston n 1 the wedge shaped piece at the top of an arch that locks the other pieces in place 2 something on which other things depend for support The earliest dictionaries were put together to explain difficult words and words in a foreign language meaning a language spoken in a different country Easy words were not included because it was felt that everyone knew them Today it is the words that are used most often that are likely to end up in a dictionary WORD WORKERS Table Alphabeticall con taying and teaching the mae keystone 1 Engliſh wordsborowed from is in Greele Latin a French tee by the whereby they may the more while I have made money Drawings can help give you a better understanding of a word's meaning The first English language dictionary was Robert A Reiter Cawdrey s A Table Alphabeticall published in 1604 It was little more than than a list of words in Latin and French term is defined benefit mely corrected The Edition Lerer ineliger Merlinger he good not to anotto vnderland LONDON Printed by TA for E Sundane and are to be held athletes great North
WHAT Is A DICTIONARY SPELLINGE00 Noah Webster was born in 1758 In He worked as a teacher lawyer editor and judge In 1828 he produced the first great American dictionary An American Dictionary of the English It took Noah Webster twenty two years to complete An American Dictionary of the English Language included Language about seventy thousand words It showed how words in the United States often had a different meaning from the same words as they were used in
