when was the first dictionary published?

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when was the first english dictionary published

Answer 1

Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall as the first English dictionary, written in 1604.

The first dictionary to be at all comprehensive was Thomas Blount's dictionary Glossographia of 1656.

In 1755, Johnson's Dictionary appeared in two large folio volumes. It represented about nine years of work, done almost single-handedly

In 1806, Noah Webster's dictionary was published by the G&C Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts which still publishes Merriam-Webster dictionaries, but the term Webster's is considered generic and can be used by any dictionary.

The most complete dictionary of the English language is the Oxford English Dictionary. The first edition was properly begun in 1860 and was completed in 1928, by which time a supplement that took an additional five years to complete was already necessary.

Answer 2

If you're asking about English:

It is often said that "Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, first printed in 1604, is. . .the first fully developed representative of the monolingual dictionary in English."

http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/ret/cawdrey/cawdrey0.html
(which also has a copy of this "table")

But even before that, in 1596, Edmund Coote published The English Schoolmaster. In fact, about half of Cawdrey's dictionary was lifted straight from Coote!

Note that both of these were lists of HARD English words with simple definitions. The first attempt at a COMPLETE English dictionary (not just of hard words) was Nathaniel Bailey's 1730 work, Dictionarium Britannicum. With 48,000 words it served as the standard English dictionary until Samuel Johnson's 1755 A Dictionary of the English Language, which used Bailey as its base.

Answer 3

I'm going to say the Oxford English Dictionary is probably the first comprehensive dictionary published.

There is a recent book that was written about the men who published it. It was quite interesting. I will try to find the name of it and come back and post it.

Answer 4

The first English alphabetical dictionary came out in 1604 and alphabetical ordering was a rarity until the 18th century. Before alphabetical listings, dictionaries were organized by topic, i.e. a list of animals all together in one topic.

Answer 5

confident, it supplies it the status of a slang be conscious ,that are right here in the present day long gone the next day. maximum words printed on the city dictionary are actually not utilized in educational or company writing seen component of the time-honored English vocabulary.

Answer 6

1604