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K. C. Vijaya Kumar of The Hindu wrote: . There is a hat-tip to William Shakespeare — ‘His written vocabulary, Dickson tells us, consisted of 17,245 words, many of which he simply made up for his plays’, but this book isn’t entirely about literature.
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; ... The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War is a 1984 book by Paul R. Ehrlich, ...
The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler (Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [3] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...
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The Historical Thesaurus of English (HTE) is a complete database of all the words in the Oxford English Dictionary and other dictionaries (including Old English), arranged by semantic field and date. In this way, the HTE arranges the whole vocabulary of English , from the earliest written records in Old English to the present, alongside dates ...
1. Henpecked male based on the Comic book character Caspar Milquetoast; very timid person; wimpy [314] mind your potatoes mind your own business [313] mitt. Main article: Hand. Hand [315] mob. Main article: Organized crime. Organized crime family or gang (not necessarily mafia) [315] mohaska Gun, Firearm, Piece; see heat; also mohoska [316] moll