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  2. The New World of English Words - Wikipedia

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    As well as containing common words, the dictionary featured many unusual words, foreign terms, proper nouns and other specialist terms. In total, the original edition featured 11,000 entries, increasing to 17,000 by the fifth edition in 1696. [2] It was later revised and enlarged by John Kersey in 1706, eventually containing 38,000 entries.

  3. List of online dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    An online dictionary is a dictionary that is accessible via the Internet through a web browser. They can be made available in a number of ways: free, free with a paid subscription for extended or more professional content, or a paid-only service.

  4. Phrase book - Wikipedia

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    A phrase book generally features high clarity and a practical, sometimes color-coded structure to enable its user to communicate in a quick and easy, though very basic, manner. Especially with this in mind a phrase book sometimes also provides several possible answers to each question, to let a person respond in part by pointing at one of them.

  5. Merriam-Webster - Wikipedia

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    In 1996, Merriam-Webster launched its first website, which provided free access to an online dictionary and thesaurus. [10] Merriam-Webster has also published dictionaries of synonyms, English usage, geography (Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary), biography, proper names, medical terms, sports terms, slang, Spanish/English, and numerous ...

  6. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary. This decision is not the same as determining whether the word exists. [citation needed] The green background means a given dictionary is the largest in a given language.

  7. Vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Focal vocabulary is a specialized set of terms and distinctions that is particularly important to a certain group: those with a particular focus of experience or activity. A lexicon, or vocabulary, is a language's dictionary: its set of names for things, events, and ideas.

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  9. Foreign Words - Wikipedia

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    Foreign Words, published by Autumn Hill Books in 2006, is Alexakis’ first work to appear in English. It was published in the US with help from the National Endowment for the Arts [3] as well as the French ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.