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In 1901 the title and subtitle changed slightly from The Century Dictionary; an encyclopedic lexicon of the English language to The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia; a work of universal reference in all departments of knowledge, with a new atlas of the world. Further editions were published in 1906, 1909 and 1911, this time in 12 volumes each. [5]
XXth century Cyclopaedia and Atlas (1901) - a reissue of New Cabinet Cyclopaedia and Treasury of Knowledge (1891), itself based on Blackie's Modern Cyclopaedia of Universal Information (1889) New Twentieth Century Cyclopaedia (1903) New and Complete Universal Self-Pronouncing Dictionary (1905) New Cosmopolitan Encyclopaedia (1906)
Their first dictionary was Clarence Barnhart's American College Dictionary, published in 1947, and based primarily on The New Century Dictionary, an abridgment of the Century. [2] [3] In the late 1950s, it was decided to publish an expansion of the American College Dictionary, which had been modestly updated with each reprinting since its ...
The American College Dictionary was the first Random House dictionary and was later expanded to create the Random House Dictionary of the English Language.First published in 1947, The American College Dictionary was edited by Clarence Barnhart based on the 1927 New Century Dictionary.
Shockingly, this version of the Century Dictionary is abridged. When it was first published in New York near the end of the 19th century, it came in six alphabetized volumes, a hybrid between a ...
Wordnik, a nonprofit organization, is an online English dictionary and language resource that provides dictionary and thesaurus content. [1] Some of the content is based on print dictionaries such as the Century Dictionary, the American Heritage Dictionary, WordNet, and GCIDE.
Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc. was a division of the Meredith Publishing Company. It is a result of the merger of Appleton-Century Company with F.S. Crofts Co. in 1948. Prior to that The Century Company had merged with D. Appleton & Company in 1933. The Century Company and its subsequent incarnations published the New Century Dictionary.
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