Types of dictionary

Abdullayev Sunnatilla
Group 4

TYPES OF DICTIONARY: Bilingual Dictionary. Monolingual Dictionary. Etymological Dictionary. Crossword Dictionary. Rhyming Dictionary. Mini-Dictionary. Pocket Dictionary. Thesaurus.

There is a vast amount of different dictionaries available for users of the English language. All these dictionaries share the aspect that they provide information about English words and items, but they are also very different and need to be distinguished from each other. One may need a dictionary in one case and the same dictionary may be absolutely useless when one tries to solve another problem.

Dictionaries can be divided up into bilingual and monolingual dictionaries. Bilingual dictionaries provide translations from one language into another. “Bilingual dictionaries are designed so that the language learner can use his source language to understand the target language”; e. g. an English-German dictionary contains English headwords and German explanations

Monolingual dictionaries, which provide all their information in one language, can be divided up further into monolingual dictionaries for native speakers and learner’s dictionaries.

The most important English learner’s dictionaries are the Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary, the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, the Collins Cobuild English Language Dictionary and the Cambridge International Dictionary of English