swap_horiz Ilan Stavans Alternatives

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Antonio de Nebrija

Antonio de Nebrija (1441–1522) was a Spanish Renaissance humanist and scholar associated with the University of Salamanc...

Spanish Historical Bilingual 15TH 16TH Century

9.6 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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Henry George Liddell

Henry George Liddell was a British scholar renowned for his extensive work in classical languages, particularly Greek. H...

Classical British Victorian Greek

9.2 Excellent

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Lev Scherba

Lev Vladimirovich Scherba was a prominent Russian and Soviet linguist who made significant contributions to the study of...

Russian 20TH Century Theoretical Bilingual

9.2 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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B.T.S. Atkins

B.T.S. Atkins is a British lexicographer recognized as a foundational pioneer in the practical application of computatio...

Theory British Oxford Bilingual

9.1 Excellent

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Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparati...

American 20TH Century Comparative Greek

9.0 Excellent

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Sherman Kuhn

Sherman M. Kuhn (1907-1991) was an American medievalist and lexicographer associated with the University of Michigan's M...

American Academic 20TH Century Historical

9.0 Excellent

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Charlton Lewis

Charlton Lewis was a prominent American lexicographer specializing in classical languages. His work significantly contri...

Classical American Victorian Latin

8.7 Great

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Charles Short

Charles Short was a 19th-century American lexicographer renowned for his meticulous work compiling the *A New Latin Dict...

Classical American Victorian Latin

8.7 Great

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Bryan Garner

Bryan Garner is a prominent American lexicographer known for his work clarifying contemporary usage of the English langu...

American Contemporary Usage English

8.5 Great

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Anatoly Liberman

Anatoly Liberman is an American lexicographer specializing in Germanic languages and English etymology. He meticulously...

American Contemporary Germanic English

8.1 Great

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Wolfgang Mieder

Wolfgang Mieder is an American lexicographer specializing in English-German language relations. His work focuses on pare...

American Contemporary English German Paremiology

8.1 Great

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E.A. Andrews

Ethan Allen Andrews (1787-1858) was an American educator and lexicographer who specialized in Latin. His 1850 Latin-Engl...

Classical American 19TH Century Latin

8.1 Great

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Anne Curzan

Anne Curzan is an American lexicographer, linguist, and academic who currently serves as the dean of the College of Lite...

American Contemporary Academic English

7.7 Good

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Tom Dalzell

Tom Dalzell is an American lexicographer and author whose work concentrates on slang, unconventional English, and specia...

American Contemporary General English

7.5 Good

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Steve Kleinedler

Steve Kleinedler is an American lexicographer who worked on American Heritage dictionaries, including the fifth edition...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 Good

18

Jane Solomon

Jane Solomon is an American lexicographer who has worked as a senior researcher for the online reference resource Dictio...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 Good

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David Jost

David Jost is an American lexicographer who has worked extensively as an editor for Merriam-Webster dictionaries. His pr...

American Contemporary General English

7.2 Good

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Michael Chyet

Michael L. Chyet is an American linguist and Middle Eastern language specialist whose work includes Kurdish lexicography...

American Bilingual Kurdish Current

6.9 Fair