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  2. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but with truncated literary references and expanded ...

  3. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (MWD) Merriam-Webster: 1828 18th (rev., ISBN 978-0877790952) 2022 (25.10) 960 (mass-market) 75,000 American: Diacritical: New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) Oxford University Press: 2001 3rd (ISBN 0-19-539288-4) 2010 2,096 350,000 American: Diacritical: Oxford Dictionary of English: Oxford University Press: 1998

  4. Noah Webster - Wikipedia

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    At the age of seventy, Webster published his dictionary in 1828, registering the copyright on April 14. [50] Despite its significant place in the history of American English, Webster's first dictionary sold only 2,500 copies. He was forced to mortgage his home to develop a second edition, and for the rest of his life, he had debt problems. [51]

  5. Template:1828 Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    This template should be placed on the main page of a Wikipedia article that includes text from Webster's Dictionary (1828). The template is a wrapper around the standard template {{cite encyclopedia}}. It takes a number of optional parameters: Parameters that default to known values and display with those values

  6. Merriam-Webster - Wikipedia

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    In 1864, Merriam published a greatly expanded edition, which was the first version to change Webster's text, largely overhauling his work yet retaining many of his definitions and the title, An American Dictionary. In 1884, the edition contained 118,000 words, "3000 more than any other English dictionary".

  7. Joseph Emerson Worcester - Wikipedia

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    Worcester's first edited dictionary was an abridgment of Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary, as Improved by Todd, and Abridged by Chalmers; with Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary Combined, published in the United States in 1827, [5] the year before Noah Webster's American Dictionary appeared.

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  9. Century Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The first edition of the Century Dictionary was published from 1889 to 1891 by The Century Company, [3] and was described as "six volumes in twenty four". The first edition runs to 7,046 pages and features some 10,000 wood-engraved illustrations. It was edited by Sanskrit scholar and linguist William Dwight Whitney, with Benjamin Eli Smith's ...