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superdictionary

superdictionary noun: an exceptionally comprehensive dictionary, which includes all other dictionaries.

Noun

superdictionary (plural superdictionaries)

  1. An exceptionally comprehensive dictionary, which includes all other dictionaries.
    • The law is a kind of superdictionary that knows in advance what any possible combination of words and expressions means.1998, Harriet Murav, Russia's Legal Fictions, Ann Arbor, M.I.: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 104
    • Mr. [Michael] Proffitt was reluctant to place the O.E.D. at the forefront of such a project. The dictionary, he said, lacks resources to transform itself this way. Instead, he advocates a federation of reference works. "The superdictionary may be, in fact, superdictionaries," he said. "What you...2014 January 22, Tom Rachman, “O.E.D.'s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Dec...

Examples of superdictionary in a sentence

  • "The superdictionary may be, in fact, superdictionaries," he said.2014 January 22, Tom Rachman, “O.E.D.'s New Chief Editor Speaks of Its Future”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times...
  • […] will anyone ever have enough time and motivation to consult them all, for the entire alphabet, and thus arrive at a truly complete superdictionary?2019, David Crystal, “The Nature of the Lexicon”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire...
  • The current direction in Estonian lexicography is a unification of lexical resources (dictionaries and term bases) into a central superdictionary, the online public dictionary CombiDic.2022 December 21, Geda Paulsen, Maria Tuulik, Ahti Lohk, Ene Vainik, “From verbal to adjectival: evaluating the lexicalization of...

Forms of superdictionary

pluralsuperdictionaries

Origin of superdictionary

From super- (“above, over”) + dictionary.

Questions about superdictionary

What does superdictionary mean?
Superdictionary means an exceptionally comprehensive dictionary, which includes all other dictionaries.
How do you use superdictionary in a sentence?
"The superdictionary may be, in fact, superdictionaries," he said.
What part of speech is superdictionary?
Superdictionary is a noun.
What is the plural of superdictionary?
The plural of superdictionary is superdictionaries.

Words near superdictionary in the dictionary

  1. superdialgebras
  2. superdiamagnetic
  3. superdick
  4. superdicks
  5. superdictionaries
  6. superdictionary
  7. superdiet
  8. superdiets
  9. superdifferentiability
  10. superdifferentiable
  11. superdifficult

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