Random House Webster 39;s Unabridged Dictionary Free Download

And now I have this enormous and beautiful new bomb from Random House. I don't mean "bomb" in a pejorative sense, or in any dictionary sense, for that matter. I mean that the book is heavy and pregnant, and makes you think. One of the things it makes you think is that any gang of bright people with scads of money behind them can become appalling competitors in the American-unabridged-dictionary industry. They can make certain that they have all the words the other dictionaries have, then add words which have joined the language since the others were published, and then avoid mistakes that the others have caught particular hell for.

Of course, one dictionary is as good as another to most people, who use them for spellers and bet-settlers and accessories to crossword puzzles and Scrabble games. But some people use them for more than that, or mean to. This was brought home to me only the other evening, whilst I was supping with the novelist and short-story writer, Richard Yates, and Prof. Robert Scholes, the famous praiser of John Barth's "Giles Goat-Boy." Yates asked Scholes, anxiously it seemed to me, which unabridged dictionary he should buy. He had just received a gorgeous grant for creative writing from the Federal Gumment, and the first thing he was going to buy was his entire language between hard covers. He was afraid that he might get a clunker--a word, by the way, not in this Random House job.

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Whoever decides to crash the unabridged dictionary game next--and it will probably be General Motors or Ford--they will winnow this work heartlessly for bloopers. There can't by many, since Random House has winnowed its noble predecessors. The big blooper, it seems to me, is not putting the biographies and works of art in an appendix, where they can be cheaply revised or junked or added to.

Webster's Third New International Dictionary. 3rd ed. Merriam-Webster Inc., 1961.

The definitive unabridged dictionary of the English language, originally published in 1961, contains more than 450,000 words. CD-ROM versions have added about 22,000 new words. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (11th ed. rev. Merriam-Webster, Inc., 2003) is based on the unabridged third edition and features more than 215,000 definitions. It includes biographical and geographical names, abbreviations, foreign words and phrases. The CD-ROM version (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus) contains audio pronunciations and can be installed on your computer's hard drive for easy access. The Web version, -w.com, may be accessed at no cost; it has a clear design and is user friendly.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary. 2nd ed. Random House, 1993.

This dictionary was the first serious competitor to the Webster's unabridged, although it contains fewer entries. A subset of the Random House Unabridged is the Random House Webster's College Dictionary. It contains more words than any of the other major desk dictionaries; it is a good source for new words, as it is updated annually. Both the abridged and unabridged editions are available on CD-ROM with audio pronunciations. ff782bc1db