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The original series initially consisted of 3 million records (Persian: فیش (French: fiche) or برگه "barge") (up to 100 meanings/records for each word or proper noun) until Dehkhoda's death in March 1956, and currently contains 343,466 entries that, according to the latest digital release of the dictionary by Tehran University Press ...
Advertisement for the New International Dictionary from the October 8, 1910, issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The Merriam Company issued a complete revision in 1909, Webster's New International Dictionary, edited by William Torrey Harris and F. Sturges Allen. Vastly expanded, it covered more than 400,000 entries, and double the number of ...
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 ...
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (commonly known as Webster's Third, or W3) is an American English-language dictionary published in September 1961. It was edited by Philip Babcock Gove and a team of lexicographers who spent 757 editor-years and $3.5 million.
International dictionary and cyclopaedia (1901) Imperial Dictionary and Cyclopaedia (1901) New Popular Encyclopaedia British ed. (1901), based on Blackie's Modern Cyclopaedia of Universal Information (1889) itself based on Popular Encyclopedia or Conversations Lexicon (1841)
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 ...
Philip Babcock Gove (June 27, 1902–November 16, 1972) was an American lexicographer who was the editor-in-chief of the Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961. Born in Concord, New Hampshire , he received his A.B. from Dartmouth College , his A.M. from Harvard University , his Ph.D. from Columbia University , and his D ...
Hiller Crowell Wellman (March 22, 1871 in Boston – February 3, 1956) [1] [2] was an American librarian who served as president of the American Library Association (1914–15). He was librarian for the Springfield (Massachusetts) City Library from 1902 to 1948.