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What is a dictionary?
Dictionary is a compendium of words or terms that are systematically listed. Initially dictionaries were available only for languages to find the meaning of words. Today that is not the case. We have dictionaries for everything under the sun. You can find online dictionaries and offline dictionaries for everything you can think off. So dictionary is now commonly understood as any systematically arranged list of words or terms. There are many free online dictionaries available today – for example Websters online dictionary. Online dictionaries make the search process easy – all that you have to do is to key in the word you are looking for and hit ‘go’ you will have your results displayed in a matter of seconds. Online dictionary – Life made easy!!!

With use of a dictionary you can learn new languages, you can increase you vocabulary and learn the pronunciation of words. Phonetic dictionaries are very helpful in learning the pronunciation of new words.

When and were did dictionary originate?
We don’t find easily all the information that we would like to know regarding the history of dictionaries. History of dictionary has no documentation available. To trace back the history of dictionaries we have to take hints from the general history or the history of literature.

We can talk of the first dictionary to have originated in the 7th century BC. The king of Assyria, Nineveh - Ashurbanipal had in his library had this first dictionary. This dictionary resembled no way similar to today’s Websters dictionary in paperback.- it was a clay tablet with letter’s inscribed in them. The second earliest known dictionary belongs to 3rd century BC. This dictionary was written by Verrius Flaccus.

The next known instance is the Sanskrit dictionaries of 5th century AD. These dictionaries were multi language dictionaries – Sanskrit dictionary, Tibetan dictionary, Chinese dictionary and Mongolian dictionary. During this era itself the concept of dictionary has started changing from only language related works to botany dictionary, astronomical dictionary, medical dictionary etc. between 6th to 8th centuries AD we hear of Hebrew dictionaries.

The Greeks and Romans too had their own forms of dictionaries in the form of glossaries.

Eventually the need for multi language dictionary was realized with the increase in the movement of people from one country to the other. One of the factors that influenced was the increasing trade interests. The first multi lingual dictionary was developed by a monk named Ambrigio Calpeno in 1590.

With the advent of printing press in the 16th century lead to the explosion of increased number of dictionaries worldwide. Today literally there are millions of dictionaries big and small, cheap and expensive – find them all here.