Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language

Among the dictionaries are Webster’s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language (1961), which contains more than 476,000 entries and provides the most extensive record of American English now available, and the 11th edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (2003).

…subject in the Encyclopédie française, Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (1961), and the 15th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica. The Encyclopédie française will provide one or more well-written treatises on the subject by writers of note. This is exactly what the encyclopaedias of the earliest period offered; and in both…

…superseded in 1961 by the Third New International, edited by Philip Babcock Gove. At its first publication it stood alone among American dictionaries in giving a full report on the lexicon of present-day English. (Because it, together with its supplements, is now available online, it is regularly updated.) The prepublication…