glossary

English

Etymology

From Middle English glosarie, from Latin glossārium, from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”). Doublet of glossarium.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒs.ə.ɹi/
• (US, dialectal, lot–cloth split) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔs.ə.ɹi/
• (General American, dialects of Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɑ.sə.ɹi/

  • Audio (US):

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• (Canada, dialects of the US) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɒs.ə.ɹi/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔs.ə.ɹi/

Noun

glossary (plural glossaries)

1. 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).

   At the back of the book you can find the glossary.

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:dictionary

Derived terms

• glindex
• glossarist
• glossarize
• unglossaried

Related terms

• gloss (noun)
• gloss (verb)
• glossator
• glossology
• gloze

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), daftar istilah (id)
• Irish: foclóirín m, gluais f
• 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)
• Kyrgyz: сөздүкчө (sözdükcö)
• 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

• Ottoman Turkish: لغت (lügat)
• Persian: واژه‌نامه (fa) (vāženāme)
• 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: ordlista (sv), ordförklaring(ar) (sv), glossar (sv) n, glossarium (sv) n
• 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)
• Ukrainian: глоса́рій (hlosárij), словничо́к m (slovnyčók)
• Vietnamese: bảng chú giải
• Welsh: geirfa (cy) f, rhestr termau f

See also

• terminography
• terminology
• thesaurus