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  2. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary now called Webster's New Universal no longer even uses the text of the original Webster's New Universal dictionary, but rather is a newly commissioned version of the Random House Dictionary. The Webster's Online Dictionary: The Rosetta Edition is not linked to Merriam-Webster Online.

  3. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Oxford University Press: 1895 2nd (20 vols., ISBN 0-19-861186-2) 1989 21,730 291,500 British: IPA: Random House Webster's: Random House: 1966 2nd (rev., ISBN 978-0375425998) 2002 2,256 315,000 American: Diacritical: Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (SOED) Oxford University Press: 1933 6th (2 vol., ISBN ...

  4. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.

  5. List of best-selling books - Wikipedia

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    Merriam-Webster Pocket Dictionary: English (Up to 1975) 15.11 million [358] 試験に出る英単語 (Siken Ni Deru Eitango) "English vocabulary in examinations" Ichiro Mori: Japanese, English: 1967: 15 million [359] 新英和中辞典 (Shin Eiwa Chu Jiten) "New English-Japanese Dictionary" Shigeru Takebayashi: Japanese, English: 1967: 12 ...

  6. William Chester Minor - Wikipedia

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    In July 1915, the Washington D.C. Sunday Star published a "sensationalized" story beginning with the line "American Murderer Helped Write Oxford Dictionary". [1] The book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in America as The Professor and the Madman), by Simon Winchester, was published in 1998 and chronicles both Minor's later life and his ...

  7. Century Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Century Dictionary is based on The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, edited by Rev. John Ogilvie (1797–1867) and published by W. G. Blackie and Co. of Scotland, 1847–1850, which in turn is an expansion of the 1841 second edition of Noah Webster's American Dictionary. [1]

  8. Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...

  9. Wikipedia:Dictionaries as sources - Wikipedia

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    A dictionary is classified by its overall character. For instance, the original Oxford English Dictionary ([1st ed.] 1933) is generally a primary dictionary (and is secondary for Wikipedia), yet reportedly at least one of its entries is not based on any identified source. That particular entry was provided by the dictionary's editor, who felt ...