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James Murray

James Murray dedicated his life to documenting the history of the English language. As chief editor of the Oxford Englis...

Historical English Past Oed

9.7 Brilliant

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Noah Webster

Noah Webster was a prominent 19th-century American lexicographer. He developed standardized spellings and definitions fo...

American English Past Webster

9.4 Excellent

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Konrad Duden

Konrad Duden was a prominent German lexicographer best known for his 1880 *Deutsches Wörterbuch*. This comprehensive dic...

German General Past Orthography

9.2 Excellent

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Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Vuk Stefanović Karadžić significantly shaped modern Serbian. He created the *Srpski rječnik* in 1818, a foundational dic...

General National Past Serbian

9.2 Excellent

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Vladimir Dahl

Vladimir Dahl was a prominent Russian lexicographer best known for his comprehensive Explanatory Dictionary of the Livin...

Russian General Folklore Past

9.1 Excellent

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Edward William Lane

Edward William Lane was a 19th-century lexicographer renowned for his comprehensive Arabic-English Lexicon. Published be...

English Arabic Bilingual Past

9.1 Excellent

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Pierre Larousse

Pierre Larousse was a prominent French lexicographer best known for his Grand Dictionnaire universel. This encyclopedic...

French General Past Encyclopedic

9.1 Excellent

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Émile Littré

Émile Littré was a prominent French lexicographer best known for his comprehensive Dictionnaire de la langue française....

French General Historical Past

9.0 Excellent

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Henry Liddell

Henry Liddell was a British scholar renowned for his meticulous work as editor of Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexi...

Classical English Greek Past

8.9 Great

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Peter Mark Roget

Peter Mark Roget was a nineteenth-century physician best known for creating the *Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases*...

Reference English Past Thesaurus

8.9 Great

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Henry Watson Fowler

Henry Watson Fowler was a 20th-century British lexicographer known for his meticulous study of English language usage. H...

20TH Century Usage British English

8.9 Great

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H. W. Fowler

H. W. Fowler was an English lexicographer whose A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, published by Oxford in 1926, becam...

Usage English Oxford Past

8.4 Great

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Eric Partridge

Eric Partridge was a New Zealand-born British lexicographer famous for his 1937 *A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventiona...

Usage English Past Slang

8.0 Great

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Nathan Bailey

Nathan Bailey was an English lexicographer whose 1721 Universal Etymological English Dictionary became the leading Engli...

General English Past 18C

7.9 Good

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Clarence Barnhart

Clarence Barnhart (1900-1993) was an American lexicographer who edited the Thorndike-Barnhart school dictionaries and th...

American General English Past

7.8 Good

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Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld

Henry Cecil Kennedy Wyld was an English philologist and lexicographer whose Universal Dictionary of the English Language...

General English Past Pronunciation

7.5 Good

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Frank Horace Vizetelly

Frank Horace Vizetelly was an English-American lexicographer who edited Funk & Wagnalls dictionaries and wrote a Literar...

American 20TH Century General Usage

7.4 Good

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Laurence Urdang

Laurence Urdang was an American lexicographer and editor who founded Verbatim magazine in 1974 and edited numerous Engli...

American General English Past

7.1 Good

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William Allen Neilson

William Allen Neilson was a Scottish-American educator who served as editor-in-chief of the extensively revised *Webster...

General English Past Webster

7.0 Good

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Benjamin Eli Smith

Benjamin Eli Smith was an American editor and lexicographer who led the Century Dictionary project, a major U.S. referen...

General English Past Century

6.7 Fair