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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 ...
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. The Collegiate Dictionary was introduced in 1898 and the series is now in its eleventh edition. Following the publication of Webster's International in 1890, two Collegiate editions were issued as abridgments of each of their Unabridged editions.
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 ...
An expanded second edition of the printed dictionary, edited by Stuart Berg Flexner, appeared in 1987, revised in 1993. This edition adopted the Merriam-Webster Collegiate practice of adding dates for the entry of words into the language. Unlike the Collegiate, which cited the date of the first known citation, Random House indicated a range of ...
In 1953, World published a one-volume college edition (Webster's New World College Dictionary), without the encyclopedic material. It was edited by Joseph H. Friend and David B. Guralnik [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and contained 142,000 entries, said to be the largest American desk dictionary available at the time.
4 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; 5 The name Webster used by others; 6 Competition; 7 References; 8 Further reading; 9 External links 9.1 1828 edition; 9.2 1841 (1844) edition; 9.3 1913 edition; 9.4 Collegiate Dictionary; 9.5 Latest Unabridged--Jerzy•t 10:58, 25 March 2015 (UTC)