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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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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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Elias Lönnrot

Elias Lönnrot was a 19th-century lexicographer primarily known for his comprehensive Finnish-Swedish dictionary. This am...

Swedish Bilingual Past Finnish

8.9 Great

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Frederic Cassidy

Frederic Cassidy was an American lexicographer dedicated to documenting regional English dialects. He recognized a signi...

American 20TH Century English Dialect

8.9 Great

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John Wells

John Wells is a contemporary British lexicographer specializing in English pronunciation. His work significantly advance...

Contemporary British English Pronouncing

8.8 Great

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Francis Brown

Francis Brown was a nineteenth-century American lexicographer specializing in Semitic languages. His most significant co...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.8 Great

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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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Gudbrand Vigfusson

Gudbrand Vigfusson was a 19th-century Icelandic scholar based at Oxford University. He is primarily known for his extens...

19TH Century Historical Icelandic Bilingual

8.7 Great

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Calvert Watkins

Calvert Watkins was a 20th-century lexicographer specializing in comparative Indo-European languages. His work focused o...

American 20TH Century Comparative Indo European

8.7 Great

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Charles Briggs

Charles Briggs was a nineteenth-century American scholar specializing in biblical Hebrew lexicography. His significant c...

American 19TH Century Biblical Hebrew

8.7 Great

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Josef Jungmann

Josef Jungmann developed the first comprehensive Czech dictionary in the 19th century. His bilingual work, produced betw...

Comprehensive 19TH Century Czech Pioneering

8.6 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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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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Anne Curzan

Anne Curzan is an American language scholar at the University of Michigan and a member of the American Heritage Dictiona...

American Contemporary Academic English

7.7 Good

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Tom Dalzell

Tom Dalzell is an American slang lexicographer who co-edited The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional En...

American Contemporary General English

7.5 Good

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Jane Solomon

Jane Solomon is an American lexicographer at Dictionary.com, known for documenting digital language and emoji usage in a...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 Good

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David Jost

David Jost is an American Merriam-Webster editor and lexicographer, noted for professional dictionary editing rather tha...

American Contemporary General English

7.2 Good

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Michael Chyet

Michael L. Chyet is an American linguist and Library of Congress cataloguer notable for his Kurdish-English Dictionary a...

American Bilingual Kurdish Current

6.9 Fair