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  • Collins COBUILD Advanced DictionaryThe Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary arrived in 1987 with a radical approach to defining words. Instead of short phrases, it used full sentences to…
  • Oxford English DictionaryIn June 1857, a small group of intellectuals in London formed an Unregistered Words Committee to search for words that were unlisted or poorly defined in…
  • Random House Webster's Unabridged DictionaryRandom House entered the reference book market after World War II. The company acquired rights to two out-of-print dictionaries: the Century Dictionary and…
  • Cambridge Advanced Learner's DictionaryThe Cambridge University Press released the first edition of what is now known as the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary in 1995.
  • Webster's New World DictionaryWorld Publishing Company of Cleveland, Ohio released the first edition in 1951. This initial version appeared as two separate volumes or a single large…
  • A Dictionary of the English LanguageIn June 1746, a consortium of London's most successful printers gathered to solve a pressing problem. Robert Dodsley and Thomas Longman could not afford the…