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Apr 19, 2024 · Webster’s Dictionary 1828: Annotated. Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language declared Americans free from the tyranny of British institutions and their vocabularies. Noah Webster, The Schoolmaster of the Republic, print by Root & Tinker, 1886. via Wikimedia Commons. By: Liz Tracey. April 19, 2024. 11 minutes.
Noah Webster was a Christian and famously said "Education is useless without the Bible." His dictionary contains seventy thousand words and over six thousand Bible references and remains one of the only mainstream dictionaries to use Bible references to demonstrate the meaning of words.
Jan 9, 2022 · Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language was produced during the years when the American home, church and school were established upon a Biblical and patriotic basis.
Mar 20, 2008 · 1828. Topics. English language. Publisher. New York : S. Converse. Collection. cdl; americana. Contributor. University of California Libraries. Language. English. Volume. 1. Skeel ; Addeddate. 2008-03-20 21:46:19. Associated-names. Howe, Hezekiah. Bookplateleaf. 0006. Call number. ucb_banc:GLAD-84018707. Camera.
An American Dictionary of the English Language, (1828), two-volume dictionary by the American lexicographer Noah Webster. He began work on it in 1807 and completed it in France and England in 1824–25, producing a two-volume lexicon containing 12,000 words and 30,000 to 40,000 definitions that had.
Noah Webster wrote the first dictionary of American English. It was a radical attempt to foster a uniform language for the United States. Webster's first edition in 1828 contained about 70,000 entries -- some 12,000 more than had appeared in earlier vocabulary lists.
May 26, 2016 · Noah Webster’s American Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1828. Wikipedia. It’s twilight time for printed dictionaries, whose word-filled bulk weighed down desks, held open doors and by turns inspired and intimidated writers searching for the perfect word. Lexicography — the making of dictionaries — has gone digital.
