TY - BOOK AU - Smith,Benjamin E. AU - Whitney,William Dwight TI - Century Dictionary T2 - Kiraz Historical Dictionaries Archive SN - 9781593333874 U1 - 330 PY - 2009///] CY - Piscataway, NJ : PB - Gorgias Press, KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reference KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; List Of Collaborators --; Prefatory Note --; Abbreviations Used In The Etymologies And Definitions --; Key To Pronunciation --; Signs --; Special Explanations --; The Century Dictionary Supplement --; A --; B --; C --; D --; E --; F --; G --; H --; I --; J --; K --; L; restricted access N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463211301 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781463211301 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781463211301/original ER -