catalog

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English

Noun

catalog (plural catalogs)

  1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) Alternative spelling of catalogue

Usage notes

In the US, both catalog and catalogue are used, with catalogue chiefly limited to some traditional contexts and catalog commonly used elsewhere.

Verb

catalog (third-person singular simple present catalogs, present participle cataloging, simple past and past participle cataloged)

  1. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of catalogue
    • 2022 March 30, Ilan Stavans, Margaret Boyle, “How Dictionaries Define Us: Margaret Boyle and Ilan Stavans in Conversation”, in Los Angeles Review of Books:
      And the exclusions are a statement about life itself: the words that were left out haven’t been co-opted; by not yet being cataloged, they still belong to us.

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Anagrams

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French catalogue, from Latin catalogus.

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

catalog n (plural cataloage)

  1. catalogue

Declension

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

catalog m (genitive cataloig, plural catalogan)

  1. catalogue