Dictionary - Lexicography, Etymologies, Definitions: Although one may speak of a “general-purpose” dictionary, it must be realized that every dictionary is compiled with a particular set of users in mind. In turn, the public has come to expect certain conventional features (see below Features and problems), and a publisher departs from the conventions at his peril. One of the chief demands is that a dictionary should be “authoritative,” but the word authoritative is ambiguous. It can refer to the quality of scholarship and the employment of the soundest information available, or it can describe a prescriptive demand for compliance to particular standards. Many people ask
Dictionary, reference book that lists words in order—usually, for Western languages, alphabetical—and gives their meanings. In addition to its basic function of defining words, a dictionary may provide information about their pronunciation, grammatical forms and functions, etymologies, syntactic
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