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noun . 1. the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. 2. a literary composition, in verse or prose, in which human ...

dic·tion·ar·y   (d k sh-n r) n. pl. dic·tion·ar·ies. 1. A reference book containing an alphabetical list of words, with information given for each word, usually including ...

noun pl.-·ar?·ies. a book of alphabetically listed words in a language, with definitions, etymologies, pronunciations, and other information; lexicon; a book of alphabetically ...

dictionary, published list, in alphabetical order, of the words of a language. In monolingual dictionaries the words are explained and defined in the same language; in bilingual ...