Samuel Johnson publishes "Dictionary of English Language"

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Education
Place
United Kingdom
Date
1755
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
The book contained 42,773 definitions in 2,300 pages. He traced etymologies of words and included quotations from literature. The Oxford English dictionary in 1928 was a revision of Johnson's dictionary. [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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