Superdictionary

Quick meaning: Superdictionary is a noun meaning (lexicography) An exceptionally comprehensive dictionary, which includes all other dictionaries.

Meaning

(lexicography) An exceptionally comprehensive dictionary, which includes all other dictionaries.

Example Sentences

The law is a kind of superdictionary that knows in advance what any possible combination of words and expressions means.

[…] will anyone ever have enough time and motivation to consult them all, for the entire alphabet, and thus arrive at a truly complete superdictionary?

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.

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 want is some kind of search that then sends you to the right place."

Word Forms

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