reverse dictionary

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Noun

reverse dictionary (plural reverse dictionaries)

1. 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.
2. 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 Finnish: käänteissanakirja (fi) 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)

a dictionary that lists words under the concepts they describe

Hungarian: tematikus szótár

See also

• Reverse dictionaries in other Wiktionary editions (separately for various languages):
  Catalan – German – Latin – Polish – Russian