noun · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈɡlɒs.ə.ɹi/
/ˈɡlɔ.sə.ɹi/US, dialectal, lot–cloth split
General-American, dialectal:/ˈɡlɑ.sə.ɹi/of Canada
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Canada, dialectal:/ˈɡlɒs.ə.ɹi/of the US
Australian, New-Zealand:/ˈɡlɔs.ə.ɹi/
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Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
1
noun
Meaning 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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
At the back of the book you can find the glossary.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
2
noun
Meaning 2
an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: gloss
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: wordbook
History
Etymology
From Middle English glosarie, from Latin glossārium, from Ancient Greek γλῶσσα (glôssa, “tongue”). Doublet of glossarium.
Across languages
Translations
83 source translations are retained for this English entry.
Albanian:
fjalorth
— list of words with their definitions
Arabic:
مَسْرَد
(masrad)
— list of words with their definitions
Asturian:
glosariu
— list of words with their definitions
Azerbaijani:
qlossari
— list of words with their definitions
Bulgarian:
речник
(rečnik)
— list of words with their definitions
Bulgarian:
речниково гнездо
(rečnikovo gnezdo)
— list of words with their definitions
Catalan:
glossari
— list of words with their definitions
Chinese Mandarin:
術語表 /术语表
(shùyǔbiǎo)
— list of words with their definitions
Czech:
slovník pojmů
— list of words with their definitions
Czech:
slovníček pojmů
— list of words with their definitions
Czech:
glosář
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
glosar
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
glossar
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
glosarium
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
glossarium
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
glosebog
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
ordliste
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
termliste
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
gloseliste
— list of words with their definitions
Danish:
glossehæfte
— list of words with their definitions
Dutch:
glossarium
— list of words with their definitions
Esperanto:
glosaro
— list of words with their definitions
Finnish:
sanasto
— list of words with their definitions
Finnish:
asiasanasto
— list of words with their definitions
French:
glossaire
— list of words with their definitions
Georgian:
გლოსარიუმი
(glosariumi)
— list of words with their definitions
German:
Glossar
— list of words with their definitions
Greek:
γλωσσάριο
(glossário)
— list of words with their definitions
Hebrew:
מונחון
(munakhón)
— list of words with their definitions
Hebrew:
מילון מונחים
(milón munakhím)
— list of words with their definitions
Hungarian:
szójegyzék
— list of words with their definitions
Hungarian:
szólista
— list of words with their definitions
Hungarian:
glosszárium
— list of words with their definitions
Icelandic:
orðasafn
— list of words with their definitions
Ido:
glosario
— list of words with their definitions
Indonesian:
glosarium
— list of words with their definitions
Indonesian:
daftar istilah
— list of words with their definitions
Irish:
foclóirín
— list of words with their definitions
Irish:
gluais
— list of words with their definitions
Italian:
glossario
— list of words with their definitions
Japanese:
用語集
(yōgoshū)
— list of words with their definitions
Japanese:
語彙
(goi)
— list of words with their definitions
Japanese:
グロッサリー
(gurossarī)
— list of words with their definitions
Kapampangan:
talabaldugan
— list of words with their definitions
Kazakh:
глоссарий
(glossarii)
— list of words with their definitions
Khmer:
បទានុក្រម
(paʼtiənukrɑm)
— list of words with their definitions
Korean:
용어집
(yong'eojip)
— list of words with their definitions
Kyrgyz:
сөздүкчө
(sözdükcö)
— list of words with their definitions
Latin:
glossārium
— list of words with their definitions
Macedonian:
по́имник
(póimnik)
— list of words with their definitions
Malay:
glosari
— list of words with their definitions
Malayalam:
പദാവലി
(padāvali)
— list of words with their definitions
Māori:
kuputaka
— list of words with their definitions
Norman:
glossaithe
— list of words with their definitions
Norwegian Bokmål:
glossar
— list of words with their definitions
Norwegian Bokmål:
glossarium
— list of words with their definitions
Norwegian Bokmål:
ordliste
— list of words with their definitions
Norwegian Nynorsk:
glossar
— list of words with their definitions
Norwegian Nynorsk:
glossarium
— list of words with their definitions
Norwegian Nynorsk:
ordliste
— list of words with their definitions
Persian:
واژهنامه
(vāženāme)
— list of words with their definitions
Polish:
glosariusz
— list of words with their definitions
Polish:
glosarium
— list of words with their definitions
Portuguese:
glossário
— list of words with their definitions
Romansh:
glossari
— list of words with their definitions
Russian:
глосса́рий
(glossárij)
— list of words with their definitions
Russian:
слова́рь
(slovárʹ)
— list of words with their definitions
Spanish:
glosario
— list of words with their definitions
Swedish:
ordlista
— list of words with their definitions
Swedish:
ordförklaring (ar)
— list of words with their definitions
Swedish:
glossar
— list of words with their definitions
Swedish:
glossarium
— list of words with their definitions
Tagalog:
talaturingan
— list of words with their definitions
Tagalog:
talahuluganan
— list of words with their definitions
Tibetan:
མཆན་འགྲེལ་རེའུ་མིག
(mchan 'grel re'u mig)
— list of words with their definitions
Tibetan:
མིང་ཚིག་རེའུ་མིག
(ming tshig re'u mig)
— list of words with their definitions
Turkish:
lügatçe
— list of words with their definitions
Ottoman Turkish:
لغت
(lügat)
— list of words with their definitions
Ukrainian:
глоса́рій
(hlosárij)
— list of words with their definitions
Ukrainian:
словничо́к
(slovnyčók)
— list of words with their definitions
Vietnamese:
bảng chú giải
— list of words with their definitions
Welsh:
geirfa
— list of words with their definitions
Welsh:
rhestr termau
— list of words with their definitions
