modern dictionary

collocation in English

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modern
adjective
uk
/ˈmɒd.ən/us
/ˈmɑː.dɚn/
designed and made using the most recent ideas ...
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dictionary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈdɪk.ʃən.ər.i/us
/ˈdɪk.ʃən.er.i/
a book that contains a list of words in alphabetical order and explains their meanings, or gives a word for them in another language; an electronic product giving similar information on a computer, ...
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A majority - probably, a substantial majority - were covered by the dictionary definition of the ' peasantry ' which prevailed in 1905 and this description can even be justified frommoderndictionarydefinitions.
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Both these dictionaries have the great advantage of being furnished with usage notes which give information in cases of doubt and which nomoderndictionarycan afford to be without.
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The word "racket" does not appear in amoderndictionary.
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The more widely used 'spellchecker' has now been accepted by most modern dictionaries as the standard term for this item of software.
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Not only are all of these words found in the inscriptional corpus, but they are also documented in colonial and /or modern dictionaries.
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Modern dictionaries tend to represent words in a normalised spelling.
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A great number of modern dictionaries published today arrange their entries by pinyin or other methods of romanisation, together with a radicals index.
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Stylistic indications (e.g. informal or vulgar) present in many modern dictionaries is considered less than objectively descriptive as well.
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Most modern dictionaries continue to list it as such.
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Teaching users about words they do nt already know has been, historically, an aim of lexicography, and modern dictionaries do this well.
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Modern dictionaries may also list the etymology as unknown.
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Modern dictionaries tend to eliminate these kinds of radicals when it is possible to find some more widely used alternative graphic element under which a character can be categorized.
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