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name, noun, slang ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A saying; a statement. archaic, rare

    "And accoꝛdyng to theyꝛe dictys reherſyd as thus […]"

  2. 2
    Clipping of dictionary. abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, informal

    "I did not see the message from Joe, when I began to make another attempt to collect a multilingual dict, which is now is included in the Debian Women Project [4] and in my homepage [5]. […] There currently are three sorts of dicts: - The acronym dict - Translations from and to English languages - Monolingual Dictionaries with explanations of words or phrases."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A dictionary network protocol.
  2. 2
    Initialism of Department of Information and Communications Technology. Philippines, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism

Synonyms

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"And accoꝛdyng to theyꝛe dictys reherſyd as thus […]"

Etymology

From Middle English dicte, from Latin dictum. Doublet of dictum.

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