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
An alphabetized list of terms with definitions often created by an organization to reflect its needs Normally lacks hierarchical arrangement or cross references Also known as a term list
An alphabetical list of words and their meanings or interpretations (glosses) in a various contexts In the translation/localization industry, it may refer simply to a bilingual or multilingual terminology list and is often confounded with dictionary Especially valuable are term lists that are suited to machine searches with glossary tools
A glossary is an alphabetical list of words or expressions and the special or technical meanings that they have in a particular book, subject, or activity [3]
A glossary of special, unusual, or technical words or expressions is an alphabetical list of them giving their meanings, for example at the end of a book on a particular subject. glossaries a list of special words and explanations of their meanings, often at the end of a book