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Murray's address books, combined with those of Frederick Furnivall, included the names of some 3000 volunteers alongside the words they had submitted quotations for and which books they had used. The Dictionary People is structured as an abecedary, with each chapter focussing on a particular type of contributor, such as "C for Cannibal", "H for ...
Ratcliffe, Susan, People on People: The Oxford Dictionary of Biographical Quotations. Roszkowski % Kofman, Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century. Saunders, J.W.W., A Biographical Dictionary of Renaissance Poets and Dramatists, 1520–1650.
The World Book Dictionary is a two-volume English dictionary published as a supplement to the World Book Encyclopedia.It was originally published in 1963 by Field Enterprises under the editorship of Clarence Barnhart, who wrote definitions for the Thorndike-Barnhart graded dictionary series for children, based on the educational works of Edward Thorndike whom Clarence Barnhart had known and ...
Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.
A Who's Who (or Who Is Who) is a reference work consisting of biographical entries of notable people in a particular field. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The oldest and best-known is the annual publication Who's Who , a reference work on contemporary prominent people in Britain published annually since 1849.
An excerpt from Dictionary People investigates the story of amateurs collaborating alongside the academic elite to create a foundation for our vocabulary.
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.
1. to enable a person to find a book of which any of the following is known (Identifying objective): the author; the title; the subject; the date of publication; 2. to show what the library has (Collocating objective) by a given author; on a given subject; in a given kind of literature; 3. to assist in the choice of a book (Evaluating objective)