English
Noun
reverse dictionary (plural reverse dictionaries)
- A dictionary in which entries are sorted alphabetically by their last letter, then second-to-last, and so on: Nausicaa would precede Hecuba, which would precede orca; influenza would precede cab, and so on.
- A dictionary that lists words under the concepts they describe.
- Synonym: inverted dictionary
Translations
a dictionary in which entries are sorted alphabetically by their last letter, then second-to-last, and so on
- Armenian: հանգարան (hy) (hangaran)
- Bulgarian: обратен речник m (obraten rečnik)
- Dutch: retrograad (nl) n
- Esperanto: inversa vortaro
- French: dictionnaire inverse (fr) m
- German: rückläufiges Wörterbuch (de) n
- Hindi: प्रतिलोम शब्दकोश (pratilom śabdakoś)
- Hungarian: szóvégmutató szótár, rímszótár (hu)
- Italian: dizionario inverso m
- Persian: فرهنگ زانسو (fa)
- Polish: słownik a tergo m, słownik regresywny m
- Russian: обратный словарь (ru) m (obratnyj slovarʹ)
- Slovene: odzadnji slovar m
- Spanish: diccionario inverso
- Ukrainian: інверсійний словник m (inversijnyj slovnyk)
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a dictionary that lists words under the concepts they describe
See also