swap_horiz Robert Scott 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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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

4

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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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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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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Henri Estienne

Henri Estienne was a 16th-century French lexicographer renowned for his scholarly work on classical languages. His Thesa...

Classical French Greek 16TH Century

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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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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A. S. Hornby

A. S. Hornby was an English lexicographer whose learner dictionary, reissued by Oxford in 1948, became the Oxford Advanc...

English Oxford Past Learners

8.6 Great

15

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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Frederick William Danker

Frederick William Danker was an American New Testament scholar whose 2000 BDAG edition became a standard Greek-English l...

Greek Lexicon Biblical Past

8.5 Great

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Franz Passow

Franz Passow was a German classical scholar whose 1819 *Handwörterbuch der griechischen Sprache* set a new standard for...

Classical Historical Greek Past

7.8 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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Robert Ainsworth

Robert Ainsworth (1660-1743) was an English schoolmaster and Latin lexicographer whose 1736 dictionary became a long-use...

Classical English Latin Past

7.1 Good

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Johann Gottlob Schneider

Johann Gottlob Schneider was a German classical scholar and lexicographer who revised ancient Greek dictionaries in the...

German Classical Greek Past

7.0 Good