Webester's Dictionaries

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English Thesauri

Roget's International Thesaurus

Collins

Ed.: Barbara Ann Kipfer

7th Ed., более 330,000 слово распределены по 1075 категориям. Продолжение дела Dr. Peter Mark Roget, опубликовавшего свой первый тезаурус в 1852 году.

(Также The Concise Roget's International Thesaurus

Сокращенная версия в бумажной обложке)

Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Publ. Delta (Random House) Ed.: Barbara Ann Kipfer, Princeton Language Institute

Множественно современной лексики, алфавитная огранизация

Www.thesaurus.com

 

Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus Publ. John Wiley and Sons combines a thematic index-based on Roget's original categories with the proven usefulness of its A-Z listing

http://www.yourdictionary.com/synonyms/

 

Roget's II the New Thesaurus

Publ. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Гораздо менее содержательный, чем два предыдущих

http://www.yourdictionary.com/synonyms/

Random House Dictionaries

существует с 20-х гг., с 1998 принадлежит Bertelsmann

 

Imperial Dictionary (1847-1850)

Publ. W. G. Blackie and Co. (Scotland)
Ed. Rev. John Ogilvie

Первый широко иллюстрированный словарь, количество слов вместе с Supplement 1855 г. с 70,000 увеличилось до 100,000.

 

Revised and Expanded Ed. (1882)

Ed. Charles Annandale, 130,000 words, 3000 illustrations
В 1883 г. издан в США The Century Company of New York

 

Century Dictionary & Cyclopedia (1889-1891)

Publ. Century Books, ed. W.D.Whitney, Supplement 1909, reformatted ed. 1911)

 

New Century Dictionary (1927)

Publ. Appleton-Century-Crofts, abridged but with new words

 

Random House покупает права на Century Dictionary и American Dictionary on Historical Principles (University of Chicago Press)

 

Random House American College Dictionary (1947)

Ed. Clarence Barnhart

 

Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Ed. (1966)

Ed. Jess Stein and Laurence Urdang, expanded in all fields, proper names, first use of computers)

 

Random House Webster's Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Ed 2nd Ed.

(1987, re. 1991), ed. S.B.Flexner).

 

Webester's Dictionaries

Noah Webster

 

A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language (1806)

 

An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

70, 000 words, “federal language”, spelling reform (color, center, wagon, program), technical terms from the arts and sciences, 12,000 words appear in a dict. for the first time, learned 26 languages to evaluate etymology

Помощник Вебствера, Worcester, был против его реформы орфографии и американизации и стад издавать собственные словари, которые успешно соперничали и даже преобладжалив литературных кругах = вплоть до появления вебстеровского словаря 1864 г.

 

Revised Ed.(1840-1841)

ed. By Noah Wenster himself, over 80 yo, with his son, several thousand new words) >

 

Права выкурает George & Charles Merriam Company, Springfield, Mass

 

New and Revised Ed. ( 1847)

publ. Merriam from now on, ed. Chauncey A. Goodrich (Yale Uni), Webster's son-in-law, modest revision close to Webster's work, but removing his “excrescences”)

 

Revised and Enlarged Ed. (1859)

with illustrations)

 

Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged Ed. (1864)

ed. Noah Porter (Yale Uni) and Dr. C. A. F. Mahn (replaced unsupoortable etymologies), largely overhauled, response to Worcester's dict., 114,000 words) > 1879, 1884 (reprints with add. material)

 

Webster's International Dictionary, Unabridged Ed. (1890, ed. N.Porter, 175,000 words, 1900 with 25,000-word supplement)

 

Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary (1909, ed. W.T.Harris and F.S.Allen, geatly expanded to 400,000, rare words in fine print at the bottom of the page “below the line”, synonyms, pronunciation tables, illustrations)

 

Second Ed. (Webster's Second, W2) (1934, ed. W.A.Neilson & T.A.Knott, claimed 600,000 words, included the famous error 'dord', still popular and considered classic due to its style and coverage)

 

Merriam Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961)

Ed. Philip B. Gove, made controversial changes: дескриптивность, убрал массу помет, включил ain't, сильно сократил материал для включения нового. Является наиболее полным словарем американского вариата английского язка.

 

С 1964 принадлежит Encyclopedia Britannica.