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Merriam-Webster, Incorporated, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially known for its dictionaries.

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, translation, etc.

or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, sometimes known as a lexicon.

It is a lexicographical product which shows inter-relationships among the data.

In linguistics, a word is the smallest element that can be uttered in isolation with semantic or pragmatic content (with literal or practical meaning).

This contrasts deeply with a morpheme, which is the smallest unit of meaning but will not necessarily stand on its own.

A word may consist of a single morpheme (for example: oh!, rock, red, quick, run, expect), or several (rocks, redness, quickly, running, unexpected), whereas a morpheme may not be able to stand on its own as a word (in the words just mentioned, these are -s, -ness, -ly, -ing, un-, -ed).

In linguistics, meaning is the information or concepts that a sender intends to convey, or does convey, in communication with a receiver.

A definition is a statement of the meaning of a term (a word, phrase, or other set of symbols).

Definitions can be classified into two large categories, intensional definitions (which try to give the essence of a term) and extensional definitions (which proceed by listing the objects that a term describes).

Another important category of definitions is the class of ostensive definitions, which convey the meaning of a term by pointing out examples.

A term may have many different senses and multiple meanings, and thus require multiple definitions.