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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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Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi

Al-Khalil ibn Ahmad al-Farahidi (c. 754 – c. 815) was an 8th-century scholar from Basra. He is primarily known for his *...

Classical Early Arabic Past

9.5 Brilliant

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Mahmud al-Kashgari

Mahmud al-Kashgari was a 11th-century lexicographer who created the *Diwan Lughat al-Turk*. This seminal work, produced...

Classical Arabic Past Turkic

9.4 Excellent

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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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Ibn Manzur

Ibn Manzur (d. 1294) was a prominent Islamic scholar and lexicographer renowned for his monumental work, Lisan al-Arab....

Classical Arabic Past Lisan

9.3 Excellent

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Robert Estienne

Robert Estienne was a prominent 16th-century French lexicographer renowned for his scholarly work. He produced the Thesa...

French Renaissance Latin 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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Aristophanes of Byzantium

Aristophanes of Byzantium was a lexicographer living in Alexandria during the Hellenistic period. He significantly contr...

Classical Ancient Greek Past

9.0 Excellent

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Fairuzabadi

Muhammad ibn Mansur al-Fairuzabadi was a 14th-century Arabic lexicographer of Persian origin. He is best known for his A...

Classical Comprehensive Arabic Past

8.9 Great

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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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Egidio Forcellini

Egidio Forcellini (1728-1771) was an Italian lexicographer renowned for his *Totius Latinitatis Lexicon*. This comprehen...

Classical 18TH Century Italian Comprehensive

8.9 Great

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Joseph Wright

Joseph Wright was a British lexicographer primarily known for his extensive work documenting regional English dialects....

Historical English Past Dialect

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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Charlton T. Lewis

Charlton Thomas Lewis was an American lexicographer who coedited the 1879 Lewis and Short Latin Dictionary, responsible...

Classical English Latin Past

8.6 Great

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Robert Scott

Robert Scott was a British classical scholar who co-edited the Greek-English Lexicon with Henry Liddell, first published...

Classical English Greek Past

8.5 Great

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Wilhelm Freund

Wilhelm Freund was a German philologist whose 1834-1845 Latin-German dictionary helped form the basis of Lewis and Short...

German Classical Latin Past

7.9 Good

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Henry Stuart Jones

Henry Stuart Jones was a British classicist who began the 1911 revision of Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, pu...

Classical English Greek Past

7.6 Good

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Henry Cockeram

Henry Cockeram was an English lexicographer whose 1623 English Dictionarie was the third known English dictionary and th...

English Latin Past Hard Words

7.1 Good

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Elisha Coles

Elisha Coles was a 17th-century English lexicographer and stenographer whose 1676 English Dictionary included dialect wo...

English Latin Past 17C

7.1 Good