Types of dictionaries

The term “dictionary” is used to denote a book listing words of a language with their meanings and often with data regarding pronunciation, usage, origin.

	UNILINGUAL	BILINGUAL (MULTILINGUAL)
General	Explanatory dictionaries irrespective of their bulk	English-Ukrainian, Ukrainian-English etc. Multilingual dictionaries
	Etymological, frequency, phonetic, rhyming and thesaurus type dictionaries
Special	Glossaries of scientific and other special terms, concordances. Dictionaries of abbreviations, antonyms, borrowings, new words, proverbs, synonyms, surnames, toponyms etc.	Dictionaries of scientific and other special terms. Dictionaries of abbreviations, phraseologisms, proverbs, synonyms etc.
	Dictionaries of American English, dialects, slang.	Dictionaries of Old English and Middle English with explanation in Modern English

Unilingual Oxford English dictionary” in 13 volumes (Oxford 1933).

Bilingual “American Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in Principal Indo-European Languages” (Chicago 1949).

General “Semantic Frequency List for English, French, German, Spanish” (1940).

A rhyming dictionary is also a general dictionary, though arranged in inversive order and so is “Roget’s Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases” in spite of its usual arrangement.

Special dictionaries: technical dictionaries, phraseological dictionaries, d of synonyms etc.

W.G.Smith “English Idioms” (1949) Brewer “A Desk Book of Idioms and Idiomatic Phrases”

Crabb’s “English Synonyms Explained”.

Glossaries Special unilingual dictionaries which give definitions of terms (medical, technical, art, musical) F.P.Hamp “A Glossary of American Technical Linguistic Usage” (1957).

Concordances D recording the complete vocabulary of a particular author are called

the encyclopaedias. The non-linguistic are dictionaries giving information in all branches of knowledge – They deal with facts and concepts. “Encyclopaedia Britannica” “Encyclopaedia Americana”.