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  2. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Latest edition Date Pages Entries (approx.) Main dialect Pronunciation guide The American Heritage College Dictionary: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2002 4th [2] (ISBN 0-547-24766-4) 2010 1,664 American: Diacritical: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Merriam-Webster: 1898 11th, revised (ISBN 0877798079) 2019 (01.08) 1,664 165,000 American ...

  3. J. A. Cuddon - Wikipedia

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    J. A. Cuddon. John Anthony Bowden Cuddon (2 June 1928 – 12 March 1996), was an English author, dictionary writer, and school teacher. He is known best for his Dictionary of Literary Terms (published in several editions), described by the Times Educational Supplement as ‘scholarly, succinct, comprehensive and entertaining…an indispensable ...

  4. Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners - Wikipedia

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    Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners, also known as MEDAL, is an advanced learner's dictionary first published in 2002 by Macmillan Education.It shares most of the features of this type of dictionary: it provides definitions in simple language, using a controlled defining vocabulary; most words have example sentences to illustrate how they are typically used; and information is ...

  5. Oxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003. [1] The dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – it is a ...

  6. Macmillandictionary.com - Wikipedia

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    Printable version; From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Redirect page. Redirect to: Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners; Retrieved from "https: ...

  7. English Pronouncing Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    English Pronouncing Dictionary. The English Pronouncing Dictionary (EPD) was created by the British phonetician Daniel Jones and was first published in 1917. [1] It originally comprised over 50,000 headwords listed in their spelling form, each of which was given one or more pronunciations transcribed using a set of phonemic symbols based on a ...

  8. Defining vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    A defining vocabulary is a list of words used by lexicographers to write dictionary definitions. The underlying principle goes back to Samuel Johnson's notion that words should be defined using 'terms less abstruse than that which is to be explained', [1] and a defining vocabulary provides the lexicographer with a restricted list of high-frequency words which can be used for producing simple ...

  9. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The whole text was completely revised for the Fourth Edition, which was published in 1993 as the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. The book attempted to include all English words which had substantial currency after 1700, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, John Milton, Edmund Spenser and the King James Version. [2]