well as numerous related or unrelated dictionaries that have adopted the Webster's name in his honor. "Webster's" has since become a genericized trademark...
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English dictionary". In 1890, they published a dictionary, which they retitled Webster's International. The vocabulary was vastly expanded in Webster's New...
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (commonly known as Webster's Third, or W3) is an American English-language...
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The Encarta Webster's Dictionary of the English Language (2004) is the second edition of the Encarta World English Dictionary, published in 1999 (Anne...
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Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary is a large American dictionary, first published in 1966 as The Random House Dictionary of the English Language:...
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Meanwhile, Webster's old foes the Republicans attacked the man, labeling him mad for such an undertaking. Scholars have long seen Webster's 1844 dictionary to...
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descended directly from Noah Webster's original publications. By contrast, Webster's New World Dictionary merely cites Webster as a generic name for any...
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Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (MWDEU) is a usage dictionary published by Merriam-Webster, Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is currently...
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House Dictionary of the English Language Webster's New World Dictionary (especially the college edition, used as the official desk dictionary of many...
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English Dictionary". blackwells.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-03-18. "Shorter Oxford English Dictionary". global.oup.com. Retrieved 2025-03-18. "Webster's Third...
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Joseph Emerson Worcester (section Dictionary war)
Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century. Their rivalry became known as the "dictionary wars". Worcester's dictionaries focused...
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Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary, Third Edition is a gazetteer by the publisher Merriam-Webster published in 1998. The original edition was published...
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Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year are words of the year lists published annually by the American dictionary-publishing company Merriam-Webster, Inc. The...
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pronunciation editor of Webster's Dictionary, sought to revise the pronouncing dictionary many years after the publication of Webster's Third (1961), but to...
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Willem Bilderdijk to his sister-in-law as a remark of astonishment. Webster's dictionary from 1913 traces the etymology of holloa to the Old English halow...
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The Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary (ISBN 978-0-87779-550-6) is a dictionary published in 2008. It focuses on American English...
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Recluse (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary)
this source, which is in the public domain. Porter, Noah, ed. (1913). "Recluse". Webster's Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: C. & G. Merriam Co....
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2020. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Merriam-Webster, Inc. 1994. ISBN 978-0-87779-132-4. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage...
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carried forward in dictionaries that followed, including Noah Webster's Webster's Dictionary in 1828 and the Oxford English Dictionary later in the same...
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English spellings follow Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ("ADEL", "Webster's Dictionary", 1828). Webster was a proponent of English...
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unmarried, childless, prissy, and repressed." Currently, Merriam-Webster's Dictionary defines the "unmarried woman" sense of the term in three ways: (1)...
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Thesaurus (redirect from Synonym dictionary)
thesauri and dictionary synonym notes included discussions of the differences among near-synonyms, as do some modern ones. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Synonyms...
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Philip M. Parker (redirect from Webster's Online Dictionary - The Rosetta Edition)
the creator of Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition, a multilingual online dictionary created in 1999. It uses the "Webster's" name, which is...
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Connecticut Webster's Brewery, a former brewer in Yorkshire, England Webster's Dictionary, any of several dictionaries edited by Noah Webster Webster Hotel...
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ISBN 0-917360-19-2. "less, fewer". Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (2nd ed.). Merriam-Webster. 1995. p. 592. ISBN 0-87779-132-5. Gowers (1973)...
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describe a handgun with a single integral chamber within its barrel. Webster's Dictionary defines it as "a handgun whose chamber is integral with the barrel"...
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Merriam-Webster's dictionary of English usage. Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster. 1993. p. 235. ISBN 0-87779-132-5. "Chairman". Dictionary.com Unabridged...
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Nevertheless, the sithe spelling lingered, and notably appears in Noah Webster's dictionaries. A scythe consists of a shaft about 170 centimetres (67 in) long...
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tool known as a cephalotribe is used to do this. As explained by Webster's Dictionary; a cephalotripsy is "The act or operation of crushing the head of...
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the 4th longest word in the Oxford dictionary. However, the word is not recorded in Merriam-Webster's dictionary of American English. Christianity portal...
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