vocabularies

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vocabularies - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Vocabulary \Vo*cab"u*la*ry\ (v[-o]*k[a^]b"[-u]*l[asl]*r[y^]),
     n.; pl. Vocabularies. [LL. vocabularium, vocabularius: cf.
     F. vocabulaire. See Vocable.]
     1. A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical
        order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a
        whole language, a single work or author, a branch of
        science, or the like; a word-book.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: The "vocabulary" of this dictionary referred to within
           the definitions of certain collocations are those words
           serving as headwords for main entries, and
           distinguished from word combinations ("collocations")
           which follow the main part of certain entries. In the
           XML-tagged version, these headwords are marked by the
           tags