Word Meanings - GLOSSARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLOSSARY)

• Commentator
• Interpreter
• explainer
• note-maker
• scholiast
• expositor
• glossary
• elucidator
• Dictionary
• Lexicon
• wordbook
• vocabulary

Related words: (words related to GLOSSARY)

• ELUCIDATORY
  Tending to elucidate; elucidative.
• VOCABULARY
  1. A list or collection of words arranged in alphabetical order and explained; a dictionary or lexicon, either of a whole language, a single work or author, a branch of science, or the like; a word-book. 2. A sum or stock of words employed. His
• EXPOSITOR
  One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.
• COMMENTATORSHIP
  The office or occupation of a commentator.
• LEXICON
  A vocabulary, or book containing an alphabetical arrangement of the words in a language or of a considerable number of them, with the definition of each; a dictionary; especially, a dictionary of the Greek, Hebrew, or Latin language.
• EXPOSITORY
  Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.
• ELUCIDATOR
  One who explains or elucidates; an expositor.
• COMMENTATORIAL
  Pertaining to the making of commentaries. Whewell.
• SCHOLIAST
  A maker of scholia; a commentator or annotator. No . . . quotations from Talmudists and scholiasts . . . ever marred the effect of his grave temperate discourses. Macaulay.
• LEXICONIST
  A writer of a lexicon.
• GLOSSARY
  A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.
• EXPLAINER
  One who explains; an expounder or expositor; a commentator; an interpreter.
• SCHOLIASTIC
  Of or pertaining to a scholiast, or his pursuits. Swift.
• WORDBOOK
  A collection of words; a vocabulary; a dictionary; a lexicon.
• INTERPRETER
  One who or that which interprets, explains, or expounds; a translator; especially, a person who translates orally between two parties. We think most men's actions to be the interpreters of their thoughts. Locke.
• COMMENTATOR
  One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; an annotator. The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, to illustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.
• DICTIONARY
  1. A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook. I applied myself to the perusal of our writers; and noting whatever might be of use to ascertain or
• MISINTERPRETER
  One who interprets erroneously.
• EXTRADICTIONARY
  Consisting not in words, but in realities. Of these extradictionary and real fallacies, Aristotle and logicians make in number six. Sir T. Browne.
• BENEDICTIONARY
  A collected series of benedictions. The benedictionary of Bishop Athelwold. G. Gurton's Needle.