Noah Webster (1758–1843), the author of the readers and spelling books which dominated the American market at the time, spent decades of research in compiling his … See more

After about a decade of preparation, G. & C. Merriam issued the entirely new Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged … See more

Since the late 19th century, dictionaries bearing the name Webster's have been published by companies other than Merriam-Webster. … See more

Noah Webster's main competitor was a man named Joseph Emerson Worcester, whose 1830 Comprehensive Pronouncing and Explanatory … See more

Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an See more

Merriam-Webster introduced its Collegiate Dictionary in 1898 and the series is now in its eleventh edition. Following the publication of Webster's International in 1890, two Collegiate editions were issued as abridgments of each of their Unabridged editions. See more

• Gove, Philip B. (1961). Webster's Third New International Dictionary. Preface. G. & C. Merriam.
• Landau, Sidney I. (1989) Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography. Cambridge University Press. Second Edition, 2001. See more