Could somebody pease tell me who invented the first dictionary? Many Thanks!?

Question

I believe the first one was printed in 1604

Answer 1

Ever since civilizations started to write they made reference works that could be called early ancestors of the dictionary. The most famous of these is the Rosetta Stone, which was made in Egypt in 200 BC. It features an account of a king's crowning written in hieroglyphs, early Arabic, and Greek. It's closer to a translator's dictionary than a modern dictionary, but it's still a very important early reference work. Formal English dictionaries didn't appear until the early 17th century. Some of the more famous dictionaries were created by the Englishman Samuel Johnson in 1755, and the American Noah Webster in 1806.

Answer 2

The most exciting non-fiction book about this subject is the bestseller, "The Professor and the Madman" , the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary..............by Simon Winchester. Really! Sadly, my feeble brain can't remember all the facts but 1604 sounds about right. This book tells the history of the OED and all of the prior and subsequent attempts at dictionary making and all manner of etymology. It's really cool
Good Luck

Answer 3

Robert Cawdray's "A Table Alphabeticall" in 1604.

Answer 4

As far as i remember from my studies of Old English, penmen used to make notes on margins of books with comments, translations or interpretations of words/realia featured in the book, esp if they had to translate it from a foreign language instead of simply copying the text. These notes were called glossaries. If we speak about English, these glossaries were the first known examples of pre-English dialects that later made up the English language.
One could easily suggest the same holds true for many other languages.
Although I'm sure the practice goes back to stones and papyri

But if you want printed versions... man, before first prints came out the mankind had accumulated such an amount of books your mind will blow up if you think!

Answer 5

According to wikipedia, it was Verrius Flaccus in the reign of roman emporer augustus.

One of the best early ones was by Doctor Johnson in England. It is full of amusing opinionated definitions of words. For example - "Excise: a hateful tax levied upon commodities…";

Answer 6

Noah Webster

Answer 7

by Mr Chambers Hence chambers dictionary

Answer 8

it was a mr Richard Shannrie, he was known as Dick Shannrie so they named his book after him

Answer 9

SOME GEEZER CALLED AARDVARK ZZYLAN

Answer 10

i think oxford.