Template:R:Dictionary.com/documentation

Usage

This template may be used in "References" and "Further reading" sections, and on talk pages, to cite the Dictionary.com website.

Parameters

• |1= or |entry= – the entry on Dictionary.com. If this is not specified, the name of the Wiktionary entry is used.
• |alt= – an alternative form of the entry, with wikitext markup if required.
• |pos= or |part of speech= – the part of speech of the entry. By default, the template italicizes the value assigned to the parameter and adds a full stop (period) to the end. To turn off the default formatting for the purpose of specifying a different formatting using wikitext markup and templates, specify |noformat=1 or |noformat=yes.
• |2= or |url= – the template can usually automatically create a link to Dictionary.com. However, if the entry contains a character other than a letter of the alphabet or a hyphen, for the hyperlink to work it is necessary to use this parameter to manually specify the URL of the Dictionary.com webpage or the portion of the URL after “.../browse/” (see the example below).
• |3= or |accessdate= – the date when Dictionary.com was accessed.
• |source= – the source used by Dictionary.com:
  • Chambers – Chambers’s Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language (1908).
  • Collins – Collins English Dictionary (10th edition, 2010).
  • Cultural Literacy – The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy (3rd edition, 2002).
  • Etymology or Online Etymology Dictionary – Online Etymology Dictionary (2000–).
  • FOLDOC – Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (1985–). Now deprecated – providing the source as "FOLDOC" acts as a redirect to {{R:FOLDOC}}. For simplicity, use {{R:FOLDOC}} instead.
  • Idioms - The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms (2003), see also {{R:AHD Idioms}}.
  • Random House – Random House Unabridged Dictionary (2nd edition, 1993).
  • Slang – Dictionary of American Slang (4th edition, 2007).

For help with adding additional sources to this template, please leave a message on the talk page.

• |4=, |text=, or |passage= – a passage quoted from the webpage.
• |nodot= – by default, the template adds a full stop (period) at the end of the citation. To suppress this punctuation, use |nodot=1 or |nodot=yes.

Examples

Unless otherwise specified, the following examples assume that the template is being used on the Wiktionary entry page “example”.

• Wikitext:
  • {{R:Dictionary.com|pos=n}}; or
  • {{R:Dictionary.com|entry=example|pos=n}}
• Result: “example, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

• Wikitext:
  • {{R:Dictionary.com|accessdate=1 January 2017|pos=n}}; or
  • {{R:Dictionary.com|accessdate=1 January 2017|entry=example|pos=n}}
• Result: “example, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 1 January 2017.

• Wikitext: {{R:Dictionary.com|accessdate=1 January 2017|pos=n|source=Random House}}
• Result: “example, n.”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, retrieved 1 January 2017, reproduced from Stuart Berg Flexner, editor in chief, Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Random House, 1993, →ISBN.

• Wikitext:
  • {{R:Dictionary.com|entry=all the world’s a stage|url=all-the-world-s-a-stage|source=Cultural Literacy|passage=The beginning of a speech in the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare.|nodot=1}}; or
  • {{R:Dictionary.com|entry=all the world’s a stage|url=https://www.dictionary.com/browse/all-the-world-s-a-stage|source=Cultural Literacy|passage=The beginning of a speech in the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare.|nodot=1}}
• Result: “all the world’s a stage”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present, reproduced from E. D. Hirsch Jr.; Joseph F. Kett; James Trefil, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3rd edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2002, →ISBN: “The beginning of a speech in the play As You Like It, by William Shakespeare.”