glossary

     

A glossary is a list of terms in a particular omain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book which are either newly introduced or at least uncommon.

Trivia about glossary

  • It's a list of defined terms in a special subject at the end of a book
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents an image of a page of a book.) A "gloss" is a marginal translation or explanation of a difficult term; the same root gives us this word for a list of such terms
  • From the Latin for "difficult word", it's a list of words and their definitions