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Century Dictionary / ed. by Benjamin E. Smith, William Dwight Whitney.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive ; 8Publisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (874 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781593333843
  • 9781463211271
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 400
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE ETYMOLOGIES AND DEFINITIONS -- KEY TO PRONUNCIATION -- SIGNS -- SPECIAL EXPLANATIONS -- Technicality- tipple -- Tipple-tzopilotl -- Uckewallist-uzzle -- Vaccinal - vysar -- Wadding - wyvern -- Xanthochroi - xystus -- Yager - yye -- Zamites - Zyxomma -- LIST OF AMENDED SPELLINGS RECOMMENDED BY THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AND THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION -- AMENDED SPELLINGS -- LIST OF WRITERS QUOTED AND AUTHORITIES CITED IN THE DICTIONARY -- SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO PREFACE
Summary: The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting "ations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense. Whitney, who is still regarded as the greatest American linguist of his time, gathered together a remarkable staff of general and specialist editors, that included many luminaries of American scholarship, to compile this beautiful dictionary.
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Frontmatter -- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE ETYMOLOGIES AND DEFINITIONS -- KEY TO PRONUNCIATION -- SIGNS -- SPECIAL EXPLANATIONS -- Technicality- tipple -- Tipple-tzopilotl -- Uckewallist-uzzle -- Vaccinal - vysar -- Wadding - wyvern -- Xanthochroi - xystus -- Yager - yye -- Zamites - Zyxomma -- LIST OF AMENDED SPELLINGS RECOMMENDED BY THE PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON AND THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION -- AMENDED SPELLINGS -- LIST OF WRITERS QUOTED AND AUTHORITIES CITED IN THE DICTIONARY -- SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE TO PREFACE

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The Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia, edited by William Dwight Whitney and Benjamin E. Smith, comprises twelve volumes, including over 500,000 defined terms, and two volumes of concise encyclopedic entries. The Century Dictionary contains full, accurate, and clear definitions, and its many supporting "ations are chosen to illustrate, where helpful, the typical uses of a word or its specific sense. Whitney, who is still regarded as the greatest American linguist of his time, gathered together a remarkable staff of general and specialist editors, that included many luminaries of American scholarship, to compile this beautiful dictionary.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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