Webster's

[web-sterz]

noun

1. Informal.,  a dictionary of the English language, especially American English, such as Dictionary.com.

Example Sentences

A critic faulted Webster’s Third in the 1960s for its “extreme tolerance of crude neologisms.”

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They saw a fresh opportunity following Webster’s death in 1843: The Merriams bought the rights to Webster’s dictionary, launching a brand that would become synonymous with the preservation and analysis of the English language.

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When Mr. Fatsis embedded himself in Springfield—he signed on as a trainee lexicographer while researching this book—his focus was the firm’s efforts to reinvent for the digital age its most famous offering, “Webster’s Third New International Dictionary: Unabridged.”

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By the time Mr. Fatsis arrived in Springfield, however, the revision of Webster’s Third was in peril.

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Crowd chants criticising the Conservative party broke out during Jamie Webster's set on the Main Stage.

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