Definition of Pocket dictionary

1. Noun. A dictionary that is small enough to carry in your pocket.

Exact synonyms: Little Dictionary
Generic synonyms: Dictionary, Lexicon

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pocket Dictionary

pocket-sized
pocket-watch
pocket battleship
pocket beer
pocket beers
pocket bike
pocket bikes
pocket billiards
pocket book
pocket borough
pocket bread
pocket calculator
pocket call
pocket calls
pocket comb
pocket dictionary (current term)
pocket door
pocket doors
pocket edition
pocket flap
pocket flask
pocket flasks
pocket gopher
pocket gophers
pocket handkerchief
pocket handkerchieves
pocket knife
pocket knives
pocket lighter
pocket litter

Literary usage of Pocket dictionary

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain (1879)
"A New pocket dictionary of the English and German language By JE Wessely. Eighteenth Stereotype Edition. sewi Mark 1,50. bound Mark 2,25. ..."

2. The American Revolution by Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1899)
"A New pocket dictionary of the English and German Languages. greatly enlarged by C. Stoffel and G. Payn, assisted by G-. ..."

3. The Christian Examiner (1841)
"A German-English and English-German pocket dictionary; denoting the Meaning of all the Words in General Use, and likewise of the principal Idiomatic Phrases ..."

4. Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the Library of the British Museum ...by George Knottesford Fortescue by George Knottesford Fortescue (1902)
"A.) An English and Chinese pocket dictionary, in the Mandarin dialect. pp. 178. ... Pocket-Dictionary of the English and Dutch Languages. 2 pt. ..."

5. Trilby by George Du Maurier (1894)
"A New pocket dictionary of the English and German Languages. By y. E, Wessely. Twenty-second Stereotype Edition. Revised, altered, and greatly enlarged by ..."

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