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English
Etymology
From Middle English glosarie, from Latin glossārium, from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”).
Pronunciation
Noun
glossary (plural glossaries)
- A list of difficult words or specialized terms used in a particular book or document, or in a particular domain of knowledge, with their definitions; a list of glosses (explanatory annotations).
- Synonyms: clavis, (rare) glossarium, idioticon, lexicon, vocabulary
- Coordinate terms: dictionary, key, legend, wordbook, wordlist
At the back of the book you can find the glossary.
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Translations
list of words with their definitions
- Albanian: fjalorth (sq) m
- Arabic: مَسْرَد m (masrad)
- Asturian: glosariu (ast) m
- Azerbaijani: qlossari
- Bulgarian: речник (bg) m (rečnik), речниково гнездо n (rečnikovo gnezdo)
- Catalan: glossari m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 術語表／术语表 (shùyǔbiǎo)
- Czech: slovník pojmů m, slovníček pojmů m, glosář m
- Danish: glosar, glossar, glosarium, glossarium, glosebog, ordliste, termliste, gloseliste, glossehæfte,
- Dutch: glossarium (nl) n
- Esperanto: glosaro
- Finnish: sanasto (fi); asiasanasto
- French: glossaire (fr) m
- Georgian: გლოსარიუმი (glosariumi)
- German: Glossar (de) n
- Greek: γλωσσάριο (el) n (glossário)
- Hebrew: מונחון m (munakhón), מילון מונחים m (milón munakhím)
- Hungarian: szójegyzék (hu), szólista (hu), glosszárium (hu)
- Icelandic: orðasafn (is) n
- Ido: glosario (io)
- Indonesian: glosarium (id)
- Irish: foclóirín m
- Italian: glossario (it) m
- Japanese: 用語集 (ようごしゅう, yōgoshū), 語彙 (ja) (ごい, goi), グロッサリー (gurossarī)
- Kapampangan: talabaldugan
- Kazakh: глоссарий (glossarii)
- Khmer: បទានុក្រម (km) (paʼtiənukrɑm)
- Korean: 용어집 (yong'eojip)
- Latin: glossārium n
- Macedonian: по́имник m (póimnik)
- Malay: glosari
- Malayalam: പദാവലി (ml) (padāvali)
- Maori: kuputaka
- Norman: glossaithe m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: glossar n, glossarium n, ordliste m or f
- Nynorsk: glossar n, glossarium n, ordliste f
- Polish: glosariusz (pl) m, glosarium n
- Portuguese: glossário (pt) m
- Romansch: glossari m
- Russian: глосса́рий (ru) m (glossárij), слова́рь (ru) m (slovárʹ)
- Spanish: glosario (es) m
- Swedish: glossar (sv) n, glossarium (sv) n, ordlista (sv) c
- Tagalog: talaturingan, talahuluganan (tl)
- Tibetan: མཆན་འགྲེལ་རེའུ་མིག (mchan 'grel re'u mig), མིང་ཚིག་རེའུ་མིག (ming tshig re'u mig)
- Turkish: lügatçe (tr)
- Vietnamese: bảng chú giải
- Welsh: geirfa (cy) f, rhestr termau f
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