![]() ![]() The book was printed by the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The final copy went to the typesetters, R. The final definition, Zyzzogeton, was written on Octothe final etymology was recorded on October 26 and the final pronunciation was transcribed on November 9. The most recent printing has 2,816 pages, and as of 2005, it contained more than 476,000 vocabulary entries (including more than 100,000 new entries and as many new senses for entries carried over from previous editions), 500,000 definitions, 140,000 etymologies, 200,000 verbal illustrations, 350,000 example sentences, 3,000 pictorial illustrations and an 18,000-word Addenda section. ![]() It was edited by Philip Babcock Gove and a team of lexicographers who spent 757 editor-years and $3.5 million. Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged (commonly known as Webster's Third, or W3) was published in September 1961. Webster's New International Dictionary (second edition, 1934) Unabridged American English dictionary Webster's Third New International Dictionary ![]()
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