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Lemieux is a French surname originating from Normandy and it has been traced from Rouen in the 1600s to earlier origins on the Cotentin peninsula. [1] According to the website "Les familles Lemieux d'Amerique" ("The Lemieux families of America") the North American Lemieux are descended from two half-brothers, Pierre and Gabriel, who emigrated from Rouen, France, to Quebec in 1643. [2]
Lemieux may refer to: Lemieux (surname) Lemieux, Ontario, a ghost town in Ontario; Lemieux, Quebec, a municipality in Québec; Lemieux Island, in the middle of the Ottawa River, National Capital Region, Canada; Lemieux Library, Seattle University, Washington, U.S. Lemieux–Johnson oxidation, a chemical reaction named after Raymond Lemieux and ...
The dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – it is a separate dictionary which strives to represent faithfully the current usage of English words. The Revised Second Edition contains 355,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including biographical references and thousands of encyclopaedic entries.
The New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) is a single-volume dictionary of American English compiled by American editors at the Oxford University Press. NOAD is based upon the New Oxford Dictionary of English ( NODE ), published in the United Kingdom in 1998, although with substantial editing, additional entries, and the inclusion of illustrations.
A second hand good is one purchased by or otherwise transferred to a second or later end-user. Second hand may also refer to: Films. Second Hand, a Romanian film; Second Hand, an Indian Telugu film; Music. Second Hand (band), British progressive rock band; Second Hand, 1991 album by Mark Heard
The Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary [1] (CCAD) from HarperCollins, first published in 1987, [2] is a dictionary that distinguished itself by providing definitions in full sentences, rather than excerpted phrases. Example sentences are given for almost every meaning of every word, drawn from a large corpus of actual usage.
Oxford English Dictionary Second edition on CD-ROM Version 3.1: Upgrade version for 3.0 (ISBN 978-0-19-522216-6):?th impression (2005-08-18) Oxford English Dictionary Second edition on CD-ROM Version 4.0: Includes 500,000 words with 2.5 million source quotations, 7,000 new words and meanings. Includes Vocabulary from OED 2nd Edition and all 3 ...
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage (MWDEU) is a usage dictionary published by Merriam-Webster, Inc., of Springfield, Massachusetts. It is currently available in a reprint edition (1994) ISBN 0-87779-132-5 or ISBN 978-0-87779-132-4. (The 1989 edition did not include Merriam-in the title.