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      • The first monolingual Spanish dictionary written was Sebastián Covarrubias 's Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española, published in 1611 in Madrid, Spain.
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  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › A_Dictionary_of_theA Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia

    It is no surprise that his friend Giuseppe Baretti chose to make the Dictionary the model for his Italian—English dictionary of 1760, and for his Spanish dictionary nearly two decades later. But there are numerous examples of influence beyond Johnson's own circle.

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  4. www.oed.com › information › about-the-oedHistory of the OED - Oxford English Dictionary

    How it began. In 1857, a proposal was put before the Philological Society, a London-based organization devoted to the scholarly study of language. The proposal addressed the deficiency of existing English language dictionaries and called for the compilation of a New English Dictionary (as it was originally called).

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    The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries - September 2020. To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account.

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  7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Early_English_dictionariesEarly English dictionaries - Wikipedia

    Before Samuel Johnson 's two-volume A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755 and considered the most authoritative and influential work of early English lexicography, there were other early English dictionaries: more than a dozen had been published during the preceding 150 years. This article lists the most significant ones.

  8. www.thoughtco.com › samuel-johnsons-dictionary-1692684Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language - ThoughtCo

    Jan 31, 2019 · Dr. Samuel Johnson. Sir Joshua Reynolds/Getty Images. By. Richard Nordquist. Updated on January 31, 2019. On April 15, 1755, Samuel Johnson published his two-volume Dictionary of the English Language. It wasn't the first English dictionary (more than 20 had appeared over the preceding two centuries), but in many ways, it was the most remarkable.

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  9. www.britannica.com › summary › dictionaryHistory and development of dictionaries | Britannica

    The first purely English dictionary was Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabetical (1604), treating some 3,000 words. In 1746–47 Samuel Johnson undertook the most ambitious English dictionary to that time, a list of 43,500 words.

  10. www.dictionary.com › e › johnsonDid One Man Write The First Great English Dictionary All By ...

    Sep 17, 2018 · September 17, 2018. We’d like to take a moment to celebrate the man behind A Dictionary of the English Language, the first definitive English dictionary, the famous Samuel Johnson. A Dictionary of the English Language, also called Johnson’s Dictionary, was first published in 1775 and is viewed with reverence by modern lexicographers.

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