October 16 is World Dictionary Day, marking the birthday of the great American lexicographer Noah Webster, who was born in what is now West Hartford, Connecticut, in 1758. Webster’s two-volume An ...

Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...

There's no one conclusive answer. But that doesn't mean people haven't tried to find one. While most books live by the standard, front-cover-to-back-cover consumption format, dictionaries (and other ...

Mark Franke, M.B.A., an adjunct scholar of the Indiana Policy Review and its book reviewer, is formerly an associate ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...

Dictionary apps are always convenient – whether you are accommodating to life in a new country, learning a new language for kicks, or simply wanting to check the meaning of a few words you didn’t ...

Rastell’s law dictionary was the first English language dictionary of any type, with its alphabetical arrangement of terms and their definitions. First published in Anglo-Norman French around 1523 as ...

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Hangry is defined as "bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger." — -- Anyone who has ever felt so hungry to the point of getting angry can finally associate that feeling with an official ...

BENGALURU: A Kannada-English dictionary containing 1,60,000 words in three volumes was released in the city on Sunday. The dictionary, running into 4,750 pages, is priced `3,000. The dictionary was ...

A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their definitions (what they mean). Dictionaries are arranged in alphabetical order. They help you to spell or understand any new words, so are a ...