how do you cite an online dictionary?
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I did find one possibly helpful entry for ‘Gopher site’ (you can use it to retrieve reference locations from your computer:
Gopher site
The gopher search protocol brings text files from all over the world to your computer. Popular in the early 1990s, especially at universities, gopher was a step toward the World Wide Web’s hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). Although the advent of HTML documents and their retrieval on the Web has diminished the use of gopher, many documents can still be accessed through Web browsers.
To document information obtained by using the gopher search protocol, provide the following information:
Author’s name
Title of document
Any print publication information, italicized or underlined where appropriate
Date of online publication
Date of access
Gopher address, in angle brackets, with directions for accessing document
Directions for accessing document
Goody, Jack. “History and Anthropology: Convergence and Divergence.” Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnology, 75.2 (1993). 2 June 1999
At the very least, you could cut and paste the browser address as a reference; that would contain both the dictionary location and the added browser routing to the page with the specified word. This seems to make the most sense to me.
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