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> considered by many It's the first definition in the dictionary.
by 3minus1 9y ago
> considered by many
It's the first definition in the dictionary.
- nostromo 9y agoThere is no "the" dictionary. And in most respected dictionaries, it isn't the first definition. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/factoid https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/factoid https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/factoid
- emodendroket 9y agoSome dictionaries order senses by age and others by usage (which may be somehow measured or may just be up to the instincts of the editors), so this isn't a useful metric without knowing the standard of the dictionary we are talking about.
- IncRnd 9y agoWhich dictionary do you mean? Do you mean that highly inaccurate one that you get when typing a word into Google.com?