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  2. List of English-language 20th-century general encyclopedias

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    Webster's Columbia Encyclopedic Dictionary (1940) Webster's Comprehensive Encyclopedic Dictionary (1941) Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary (1941) Library of Essential Information (1942) American People's Encyclopedia (1946) Consolidated Webster Comprehensive Encyclopedic Dictionary (1954) Consolidated Webster Encyclopedic Dictionary (1954)

  3. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but with truncated literary references and expanded ...

  4. Webster's New World Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, Webster's New World Dictionary merely cites Webster as a generic name for any American English dictionary, as does Random House's line of Webster's Unabridged and derived dictionaries. Webster's New World student and children's editions were produced for younger readers but were discontinued since 1996. Dictionaries for foreign ...

  5. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    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: Diacritical: Webster's New World College Dictionary: HarperCollins: 1953 5th ...

  6. P. Austin Nuttall - Wikipedia

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    Routledge's Diamond dictionary of the English language, adapted to the present state of English literature : in which every word is defined with precision and brevity, and the accentuation and orthography clearly shown. London: Routledge. OCLC 79439461. Nuttall, P. Austin, ed. (1869). Dictionary of scientific terms.

  7. Joseph Emerson Worcester - Wikipedia

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    Joseph Emerson Worcester (August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century. Their rivalry became known as the "dictionary wars".

  8. World Publishing Company - Wikipedia

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    The World Publishing Company was an American publishing company. The company published genre fiction, trade paperbacks, children's literature, nonfiction books, textbooks, Bibles, and dictionaries, [1] primarily from 1940 to 1980.

  9. Funk & Wagnalls - Wikipedia

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    Funk & Wagnalls was an American publisher known for its reference works, including A Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1st ed. 1893–5), and the Funk & Wagnalls Standard Encyclopedia (25 volumes, 1st ed. 1912).