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dictionaries on historical principles

dictionaries on historical principles is the plural of dictionary on historical principles.

Meaning of dictionary on historical principles

Noun

dictionary on historical principles (plural dictionaries on historical principles)

  1. A type of scholarly dictionary that displays the history of lexical items through citations.
    • As such, dictionaries on historical principles not only treat pronunciation, grammatical category, etymology (word derivation and history), orthographical form, and semantic content (in the form of definitions), but do so from a historical perspective, displaying the changes (and stabilities) of...2017, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, page 2

Questions about dictionaries on historical principles

What is dictionaries on historical principles the plural of?
Dictionaries on historical principles is the plural of dictionary on historical principles.

Words near dictionaries on historical principles in the dictionary

  1. dictionarian
  2. dictionarians
  3. dictionaric
  4. dictionaried
  5. dictionaries
  6. dictionaries on historical principles
  7. dictionariese
  8. dictionarily
  9. dictionarise
  10. dictionarised
  11. dictionarises

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