American College Dictionary
- American College Dictionary
The American College Dictionary was the first Random House dictionary and was later expanded to create the Random House Dictionary of the English Language. First published in 1947, "The American College Dictionary" was edited by Clarence Barnhart based on the 1927 New Century Dictionary.
Wikimedia Foundation.
2010.
Look at other dictionaries:
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language — (AHD) is an American dictionary of the English language published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. Its creation was spurred by the controversy over the Webster s Third New International Dictionary … Wikipedia
dictionary — /dik sheuh ner ee/, n., pl. dictionaries. 1. a book containing a selection of the words of a language, usually arranged alphabetically, giving information about their meanings, pronunciations, etymologies, inflected forms, etc., expressed in… … Universalium
College — • The word college, from the Latin collegium, originally signified a community, a corporation, an organized society, a body of colleagues, or a society of persons engaged in some common pursuit Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. College… … Catholic encyclopedia
American bison — B. b. bison Alternate image Historic drawing … Wikipedia
American and British English differences — For the Wikipedia editing policy on use of regional variants in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of style#National varieties of English. This is one of a series of articles about the differences between British English and American English, which … Wikipedia
American and British English spelling differences — Spelling differences redirects here. For other uses, see Category:Language comparison. For guidelines on dialects and spelling in the English language version of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English. Differences… … Wikipedia
College — This article is about educational colleges. For other uses, see College (disambiguation). King s College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent… … Wikipedia
American football — For other uses, see American football (disambiguation). American football The U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen (left) face off against the … Wikipedia
Dictionary — For other uses, see Dictionary (disambiguation). For Wikimedia s dictionary project visit Wiktionary, or see the Wiktionary article. A multi volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini. A dic … Wikipedia
dictionary — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. wordbook, lexicon, vocabulary. See publication. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. glossary, lexicon, wordbook, word list, vocabulary, thesaurus, concordance, reference work, gazetteer, encyclopedia, cyclopedia … English dictionary for students