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The 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