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  2. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    A later dictionary added 17 words, bringing the total number of official words to 137. Subsequently, the Lipu Linku dictionary has used the Toki Pona language survey to identify 260 words in use in Toki Pona, though not all are frequently used. [189] [190] [191]

  3. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    Dictionary and thesaurus. Wikipedia languages. This Wikipedia is written in English. Many other Wikipedias are available; some of the largest are listed below.

  4. Lists of English words - Wikipedia

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    List of American words not widely used in the United Kingdom; List of British words not widely used in the United States; List of South African English regionalisms; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: A–L; List of words having different meanings in American and British English: M–Z

  5. Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Langenscheidt dictionaries in various languages A multi-volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini Dictionary definition entries. A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions ...

  6. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English: Pearson-Longman: 1978 6th (ISBN 9781447954194) 2014 (17.04) 2,224 165,000 British: Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners: Macmillan Education: 2002 2nd (ISBN 9781405025263) 2007 1,748 British: Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary: Merriam-Webster: 2008 2nd (ISBN ...

  7. Most common words in English - Wikipedia

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    Some lists of common words distinguish between word forms, while others rank all forms of a word as a single lexeme (the form of the word as it would appear in a dictionary). For example, the lexeme be (as in to be ) comprises all its conjugations ( is , was , am , are , were , etc.), and contractions of those conjugations. [ 5 ]

  8. Norman Lewis (grammarian) - Wikipedia

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    Norman Lewis (born December 30, 1912, in Brooklyn, New York – died September 8, 2006, in Whittier, California) was an author, grammarian, lexicographer, and etymologist.. Lewis was a leading authority on English-language skills, whose best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary published by Pocket Books in 1971 promised to teach readers "how to make words your slaves" in fifteen ...

  9. A Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia

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    The entire first Folio edition is available on A Dictionary of the English Language [45] as an electronic scan. As of April 15, 2021, A Dictionary of the English Language will become Johnsons Dictionary Online, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and created by a team of scholars at the University of Central Florida ...