Collocations for dictionary - noun

comprehensive, good | electronic, online | picture | pocket | English, French, etc. | English/French, French/English, etc. | bilingual, monolingual | learner''s, native-speaker | standard | specialist, technical | collocation, etymological, historical, pronunciation | biographical, encyclopedic, medical
I decided to consult a medical dictionary.

consult, look sth up in, use
If you don''t know the meaning of a word, look it up in the dictionary. | teaching children how to use dictionaries

compile, write | edit | publish

definition, entry

in a/the ~
I couldn''t find the word in the dictionary.