Who wrote the first English dictionary?

Answer 1

Frequently it is 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 2

Robert Cawdrey wrote the first English Dictionary, and it was called "A Table Alphabeticall", writted in 1604.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Robert Cawdrey's Table Alphabeticall, first printed in 1604, is generally regarded to be the first fully developed representative of the monolingual dictionary in English

Answer 5

Read Bill Bryson's book,Mother Tongue.If you're seriously interested in who wrote the the first dictionary,this book will tell you that and much more that will interest you.

Answer 6

Some guy named Webster...lol

Answer 7

webster