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

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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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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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John Chadwick

John Chadwick (1920-1998) was an English classical scholar, linguist, and lexicographer who worked with Michael Ventris...

Classical 20TH Century Historical English

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

Albert Sidney Hornby was an English grammarian and lexicographer who specialized in creating accessible reference materi...

English Oxford Past Learners

8.6 Great

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Charlton T. Lewis

Charlton Thomas Lewis was an American lawyer, author, editor, and lexicographer known for his work on Latin reference bo...

Classical English Latin Past

8.6 Great

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Franz Passow

Franz Passow was a 19th-century German classical scholar and philologist who specialized in Ancient Greek literature and...

Classical Historical Greek Past

7.8 Good

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Henry Stuart Jones

Henry Stuart Jones was a British classical scholar and lexicographer who worked on major reference resources for ancient...

Classical English Greek Past

7.6 Good

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Robert Ainsworth

Robert Ainsworth (1660-1743) was an English schoolmaster and Latin lexicographer. His principal work was a Latin diction...

Classical English Latin Past

7.1 Good

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Johann Gottlob Schneider

Johann Gottlob Schneider was a German classical scholar and lexicographer whose work focused in part on ancient Greek. H...

German Classical Greek Past

7.0 Good