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   • 1. a city in eastern Missouri, southwest of St. Louis; population 22,335 (est. 2008).

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   Why was Webster a dictionary?

   • Webster's dictionaries were a redefinition of Americanism within the context of an emergent and unstable American socio-political and cultural identity. Webster's identification of his project as a "federal language" shows his competing impulses towards regularity and innovation in historical terms.

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   What does Webster's mean?

   • " Webster's " has since become a genericized trademark in the United States for English dictionaries, and is widely used in dictionary titles. Merriam-Webster is the corporate heir to Noah Webster's original works, which are in the public domain.

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   When did Noah Webster start writing dictionaries?

   • Noah Webster (1758–1843), the author of the readers and spelling books which dominated the American market at the time, spent decades of research in compiling his dictionaries. His first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, appeared in 1806.

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