Tigers are my favourite animal

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I'm afraid I have very few choices since I live in a non-English country. It's hard to expect that there's always someone to answer my questions while dictionaries are willing to tell as much in detail as they can.

It is your choice. You can choose whether to use a dictionary definition or two to help you gain a general idea of the meaning of a word, or frenetically try to fit every use of a word you encounter into an exact match with a definition in one dictionary.