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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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Carl Darling Buck

Carl Darling Buck (1866–1955) was an American linguist and philologist who served as professor of Sanskrit and comparati...

American 20TH Century Comparative Greek

9.0 Excellent

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Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce was an American Civil War veteran, journalist, and author known for his cynical and macabre short stories...

American Historical Satirical 19TH 20TH Century

9.0 Excellent

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Sherman Kuhn

Sherman M. Kuhn (1907-1991) was an American medievalist and lexicographer associated with the University of Michigan's M...

American Academic 20TH Century Historical

9.0 Excellent

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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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Philip Gove

Philip Gove was an American lexicographer best known for serving as the editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New Internati...

American Controversial 20TH Century Descriptive

8.9 Great

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John Wells

John Wells is a contemporary British lexicographer specializing in English pronunciation. His work significantly advance...

Contemporary British English Pronouncing

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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John Bartlett

John Bartlett (1820–1905) was an American bookseller and publisher who owned the Harvard Cooperative bookstore in Cambri...

American 19TH Century Historical Regional

8.8 Great

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James Strong

James Strong (1822–1894) was an American biblical scholar and theologian who compiled "Strong's Concordance" in 1890. Th...

American 19TH Century Biblical Theological

8.7 Great

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Bryan Garner

Bryan Garner is a prominent American lexicographer known for his work clarifying contemporary usage of the English langu...

American Contemporary Usage English

8.5 Great

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Anatoly Liberman

Anatoly Liberman is an American lexicographer specializing in Germanic languages and English etymology. He meticulously...

American Contemporary Germanic English

8.1 Great

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Bartlett Jere Whiting

Bartlett Jere Whiting was a 20th-century American lexicographer specializing in early American proverbs. His significant...

American 20TH Century Historical English

8.0 Great

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Morris Palmer Tilley

Morris Palmer Tilley was an American proverb scholar whose 1950 dictionary cataloged English proverbs from the 16th and...

American 20TH Century Historical English

7.9 Good

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Anne Curzan

Anne Curzan is an American lexicographer, linguist, and academic who currently serves as the dean of the College of Lite...

American Contemporary Academic English

7.7 Good

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Tom Dalzell

Tom Dalzell is an American lexicographer and author whose work concentrates on slang, unconventional English, and specia...

American Contemporary General English

7.5 Good

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Steve Kleinedler

Steve Kleinedler is an American lexicographer who worked on American Heritage dictionaries, including the fifth edition...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 Good

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Jane Solomon

Jane Solomon is an American lexicographer who has worked as a senior researcher for the online reference resource Dictio...

American Contemporary General English

7.3 Good

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David Jost

David Jost is an American lexicographer who has worked extensively as an editor for Merriam-Webster dictionaries. His pr...

American Contemporary General English

7.2 Good

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Ilan Stavans

Ilan Stavans is a Mexican-born American essayist, cultural critic, editor, translator, and lexicographer whose work exam...

American Contemporary Cultural Bilingual

6.8 Fair