stores a series of key value pairs. For example if you wanted to store a count for each day of the week you could create a dictionary called dayOfWeekCount and have a series of entries such as dayOfWeekCount [monday] = 1, dayOfWeekCount [tuesday] = 3 etc. | stores a series of key value pairs. For example if you wanted to store a count for each day of the week you could create a dictionary called dayOfWeekCount and have a series of entries such as dayOfWeekCount [monday] = 1, dayOfWeekCount [tuesday] = 3 etc. |