dictionary
A reference book which provides linguistic information about the words of a particular language e.g. meaning and usage, spelling, pronunciation and word division, or translation of one language to another.
The first known bilingual dictionary was inscribed on stone in ancient Mesopotamia, Syria today, around 2300 BC. The first dictionary of the Chinese language, the Erya, was written in the 3rd century BC around the same time that Apollonius the Sophist produced a Greek lexicon. In Germany, church scholars produced hand written German-Latin reference books from the 14th century onwards while the first printed dictionary was the Teutonista, written by Gerhard van der Schuerendas and published in 1477.
Since the 1980s, dictionaries have been published in digital form on the Internet, as CD-ROMs and DVDs and play a increasingly important role in the office.
About this glossary:
This glossary is presented by Dussmann Office, a provider of quality office services in Germany from office rentals, virtual offices, office services and complete offices to reservation of conference rooms and flexible booking of office space on a daily basis.
Dussmann Office has locations nationwide. Contact partners at the headquarters in Berlin are available to answer requests and inquiries. Dussmann Office, like Dussmann Service, Kursana and Dussmann das KulturKaufhaus, is a company division of the Dussmann Group.
