Year Author /Editor Dictionary Size /Type

1909 Merriam International Dictionary

1913 Funk & Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary of the English Language 450,000 terms

1927 The New Century Dictionary

1928 Oxford English Dictionary 1888-1928, 1933

1934 Webster's New International Dictionary 600,000 entries

1938 Irving Lorge & Edward Thorndike A Semantic Count of English Words

1947 American College Dictionary 132,000

1947 Funk & Wagnalls New College Standard 145,000

1953 David Guralnik & Joseph Friend Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language

1961 Philip Babcock Gove, ed. Webster's Third New International Dictionary 450,000 entries (100,000 new)

1963 Philip Babcock Gove, ed. Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary

1966 Random House The Random House Dictionary of the English Language

1968 Random House Random House Dictionary, College Edition (Random House College Dictionary) 155,000

1969 American Heritage Dictionary

1973 Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary

1983 Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary 160,000

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