swap_horiz Paul McFedries Alternatives

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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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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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Heinrich Gesenius

Heinrich Friedrich Wilhelm Gesenius (1786–1842) was a German orientalist, theologian, and biblical scholar who served as...

German 19TH Century Historical Biblical

9.5 Brilliant

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Al-Zabidi

Muhammad Murtada al-Zabidi was an 18th-century Arab lexicographer and scholar best known for compiling the "Taj al-Arus,...

Classical 18TH Century Historical Arabic

9.5 Brilliant

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Duan Yucai

Duan Yucai was an 18th-century Chinese philologist of the Qing Dynasty whose work significantly advanced the study of hi...

Classical Historical Chinese 18TH 19TH Century

9.5 Brilliant

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John Considine

John Considine is a Canadian academic and lexicographer specializing in the history of English dictionaries and early mo...

Academic Canadian Early Modern 20TH 21ST Century

8.6 Great

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Angus Stevenson

Angus Stevenson is a British lexicographer and dictionary editor who joined Oxford University Press in 1988. His work ha...

21ST Century British Oxford Descriptive

8.3 Great

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Lynne Murphy

Lynne Murphy is an American linguist and professor of linguistics at the University of Sussex. Her research includes lex...

21ST Century Comparative American British British American

8.2 Great

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Catherine Soanes

Catherine Soanes is a British lexicographer and dictionary editor associated with Oxford reference publishing. She serve...

21ST Century British Oxford Descriptive

8.1 Great

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Katherine Martin

Katherine Martin is an American lexicographer who has worked extensively with Oxford University Press. She served as the...

Modern 21ST Century British Oed

8.0 Great

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Alain Polguère

Alain Polguère is a lexicologist associated with Meaning-Text theory; his French lexical work includes the 2007 Lexique...

French Contemporary Canadian Computational

7.9 Good

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Marie-Claude L'Homme

Marie-Claude L'Homme is a Canadian linguist, terminologist, and lexicographer affiliated with the Université de Montréal...

French Contemporary Terminology Canadian

7.8 Good

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Jim Breen

Jim Breen is an Australian computer scientist and lexicographer known for developing electronic resources for Japanese-l...

Japanese Digital English Current

7.6 Good

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Michael Quinion

Michael Quinion is a British etymologist and writer known for creating and maintaining World Wide Words, a website dedic...

Contemporary British Digital English

7.6 Good

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Jean-Claude Boulanger

Jean-Claude Boulanger (1946-2018) was a Québécois linguist and lexicographer who taught at Université Laval and studied...

French Canadian Descriptive 20TH 21ST Century

7.6 Good

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Jonathan Dent

Jonathan Dent is an English lexicographer who contributed to the compilation of modern English dictionaries, assisting i...

Modern 21ST Century British Oed

7.5 Good

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Katherine Barber

Katherine Barber was a Canadian lexicographer who lived from 1959 to 2021 and served as the founding editor of the Canad...

Canadian English Oxford Past

7.4 Good

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David Skinner

David Skinner is an American writer and lexicographer best known for The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the...

American 21ST Century Usage Prescriptive

7.3 Good

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David Barnhart

David K. Barnhart is an American lexicographer whose work focuses especially on new words, new meanings and changing usa...

American English Current New Words

6.9 Fair

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Grady Ward

Grady Ward is an American software engineer and lexicographer who created the Moby Project and released its lexical reso...

Digital English Current Thesaurus

6.2 Fair