For example, Norstedts Stora Engelsk-Svenska Ordbok (Norstedts, 2000) is aimed a covering some 135,000 of the most commonly occurring words of English.Ī specialized dictionary, on the other hand, focuses on a more narrow and specialized part of a language, for example the words used in engineering, medicine, aviation, experimental psychology, etc. The general dictionaries, as the name implies, deal with the more general side of one or several languages. Thirdly, a dictionary that deals with more than two languages is called a multilingual dictionary.Īll these types of dictionary can furthermore be divided into general or specialised dictionaries. Example sentences are often given in both languages. For example, Norstedts Stora Svensk-Engelska Ordbok (Norstedts, 2000) presents headwords in Swedish, whereas meanings (translation equivalents) are given in English. English-Swedish) is called a bilingual dictionary. Secondly, a dictionary that deals with two languages (e.g. For example, English monolingual dictionaries like the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE) or the Collins Cobuild Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (CCALD) have English headwords, English definitions, and all examples and additional information are given in English. Firstly, a dictionary that deals only with one language is called a monolingual dictionary. One distinction that can be made is that between dictionaries that deal with one single language and those that deal with several languages.
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