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Webster2|ˈwɛbstə(r)|
The name of Noah Webster (1758–1843), the American lexicographer, used absol. to designate his Dictionary (first published in 1828), and any of its later revisions and abridgements (now published by G. and C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Mass.).
1843Quincy (Illinois) Herald 17 Mar. 4/1 (heading) Definitions not found in Webster. 1928Amer. Speech IV. 90 We use Webster (in America) colloquially as synonymous with dictionary. 1950[see Oxford 2]. 1978Amer. Speech LIII. 70 Many ‘Websters’ later, came the controversial dictionary edited by Philip B. Gove and published in 1961 by the G. and C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, to whom Webster's heirs had sold the rights to the dictionary in 1843. |