added dictionary and README

Dictionary/README.md

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+# Dictionary
+
+## How to use
+
+Run the program with the command:
+
+```python dictionary.py
+```
+
+Enter the word you want to look up when prompted. The program will return the definition of the word if it exists in the dictionary.
+
+## Quirks
+
+- Certain word definitions may contain multiple meanings, and the program will return only the first definition, but **only** in certain cases. In other cases, it may return all definitions. This inconsistency is due to the way the dictionary data is structured and how the program processes it.

Dictionary/main.py

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+"""This program fetches the definition of a word from the Dictionary API
+and displays it to the user.
+The user is prompted to enter a word, and the program makes a GET request to the API
+to retrieve the definition.
+The program then extracts and displays the word,
+its phonetics, and the number of meanings it has."""
+# many line breaks here because the default line length is
+# 100 characters but the docstring is longer than that lol
+import requests
+
+URL = "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/api/v2/entries/en/"
+
+def get_definition(word):
+    """Fetches the definition of a word from the Dictionary API and displays it to the user."""
+    response = requests.get(f"{URL}{word}", timeout=10)
+    if response.status_code == 200:
+        data = response.json()
+        # print(data)
+        word1 = data[0]['word']
+        phonetics = data[0]['phonetics'][1]['text']
+        number_of_meanings =  len(data[0]['meanings'])
+        print(f"Word: {word1}")
+        print(f"Phonetics: {phonetics}")
+        print(f"Number of meanings: {number_of_meanings}")
+        for i in range(0, number_of_meanings):
+            try:
+                meaning = data[0]['meanings'][i]
+                definition = meaning['definitions'][i]
+                antonyms = definition.get('antonyms') or 'No antonyms'
+                print(
+                    f"Meaning {i}: {meaning.get('partOfSpeech','')} "
+                    f"Definition {i}: {definition.get('definition','')} "
+                    f"Antonyms: {antonyms}"
+                )
+                # for definition in meaning['definitions']:
+                #     print(f"Definition: {definition['definition']}")
+            except IndexError:
+                continue
+
+def main():
+    """Main function to run the program."""
+    word = input("Enter a word to get its definition: ")
+    get_definition(word)
+
+main()