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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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Christiane Fellbaum

Christiane Fellbaum is a prominent lexicographer specializing in English language resources. She is best known as a co-c...

English Computational Current Wordnet

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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Jonathon Green

Jonathon Green is a British slang lexicographer whose Green's Dictionary of Slang appeared in print in 2010 and online i...

Historical English Current Slang

8.7 Great

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John Simpson

John Simpson is a British lexicographer who served as chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and oversaw its 1989...

English Current Oed Chief Editor

8.7 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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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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Pekka Sammallahti

Pekka Sammallahti is a Finnish linguist and lexicographer noted for major work on Sami languages, including a Northern S...

Bilingual Sami Finnish Current

8.0 Great

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Li Fanwen

Li Fanwen, a Chinese Tangutologist born in 1932, produced a 1997 Tangut-Chinese dictionary with 6,000 characters and won...

Chinese Bilingual Current Tangut

7.6 Good

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David Barnhart

David K. Barnhart, an American lexicographer of new words, founded Lexik House in 1980 and edited the Barnhart Dictionar...

American English Current New Words

6.9 Fair

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Peter Sokolowski

Peter Sokolowski is an American lexicographer and editor-at-large for Merriam-Webster, noted for public explanations of...

American English Current Merriam

6.9 Fair

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Grant Barrett

Grant Barrett (born 1970) is an American lexicographer of slang and new usage who compiled the 2004 Oxford Dictionary of...

American English Current Slang

6.8 Fair

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Ben Zimmer

Ben Zimmer is an American linguist and lexicographer who became editor for American dictionaries at Oxford University Pr...

American English Current Visual Thesaurus

6.8 Fair

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Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is a Mexican American essayist and lexicographer whose 2003 Spanglish book documented Spanish and English c...

American Contemporary Cultural Bilingual

6.8 Fair

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Emily Brewster

Emily Brewster is a Merriam-Webster associate editor and lexicographer who has explained additions such as 850 new dicti...

American English Current Merriam

6.6 Fair