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    A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for logographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologies, pronunciations, translation, etc. [1] [2] [3] It is a lexicographi...

    • Lexeme

      A lexeme (/ ˈ l ɛ k s iː m / ⓘ) is a unit of lexical meaning...

  2. Invented the printing press. Introduced movable type to Europe. Johannes Gensfleisch zur Laden zum Gutenberg [a] ( c. 1393–1406 – 3 February 1468) was a German inventor and craftsman who invented the movable-type printing press. Though movable type was already in use in East Asia, Gutenberg's invention of the printing press [2] enabled a ...

    • 3 February 1468, Mainz, Holy Roman Empire, (modern-day Germany)
  3. May 10, 2024 · Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Welcome to the English-language Wiktionary, a collaborative project to produce a free-content multilingual dictionary. It aims to describe all words of all languages using definitions and descriptions in English.

  4. English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England. [4] [5] [6] The namesake of the language is the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain.

  5. The largest and most trusted free online dictionary for learners of British and American English with definitions, pictures, example sentences, synonyms, antonyms, word origins, audio pronunciation, and more. Look up the meanings of words, abbreviations, phrases, and idioms in our free English Dictionary.

  6. /ði ˌɑːksfərd ˌɪŋɡlɪʃ ˈdɪkʃəneri/ (also the OED) a very large historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press.

  7. Nov 13, 2009 · 1828. “Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language” is printed. Noah Webster, a Yale-educated lawyer with an avid interest in language and education, publishes his American...

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