The dictionary markup can be used to store key-value pairs like in a dictionary or glossary. It uses definition lists (see HelpOnLists). A dictionary page used by the system has to have a name ending with Dict (see page_dict_regex on the page HelpOnConfiguration).

Dictionaries can be either shared or private (only you have read access to them under your homepage).

1. How does it look?

This is an example:

var1

value1

var2

value2

var3

value3

And it looks like this in the page source:

 var1:: value1
 var2:: value2
 var3:: value3

• The leading space and the space after '::' are important.

See also HelpOnVariables

2. Dictionaries for translations

Dictionaries can be used to translate user-specified words with auto-substitution¹. If you want to use that a dictionary has to be named in the form LanguageDict (examples: GermanDict, FrenchDict, SpanishDict, etc.).