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A '''glossary''' (from {{langx|grc|γλῶσσα}}, ''glossa''; language, speech, wording), also known as a '''vocabulary''' or '''clavis''', is an alphabetical list of [[Term (language)|terms]] in a particular [[domain of knowledge]] with the [[definition]]s for those terms.{{Citation needed|date=March 2023}} Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a [[book]] and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are most commonly associated with [[non-fiction]] books, in some cases, [[fiction]] novels sometimes include a glossary for unfamiliar terms.

A bilingual glossary is a list of terms in one language defined in a second language or [[Gloss (annotation)|glossed]] by [[synonym]]s (or at least near-synonyms) in another language.

In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of [[concept]]s relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of [[ontology]]. Automatic methods have been also provided that transform a glossary into an ontology<ref>R. Navigli, P. Velardi. [http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~navigli/pubs/Navigli_Velardi_IOS_2008.pdf From Glossaries to Ontologies: Extracting Semantic Structure from Textual Definitions], Ontology Learning and Population: Bridging the Gap between Text and Knowledge (P. Buitelaar and P. Cimiano, Eds.),  Series information for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press, 2008, pp. 71-87.</ref> or a computational lexicon.<ref>R. Navigli. [http://www.dsi.uniroma1.it/~navigli/pubs/EACL_2009_Navigli.pdf Using Cycles and Quasi-Cycles to Disambiguate Dictionary Glosses], Proc. of 12th Conference of the European Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2009), Athens, Greece, March 30-April 3rd, 2009, pp. 594-602.</ref>