The New England native’s impact on our national heritage proved far greater than just the American-English dictionary that still bears his name. "Webster was very much in the truest sense of the ...

Mathews Memorial Library visited Mathews Elementary School on Oct. 15, again handing out personal dictionaries to third grade ...

Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

"He used little slips of paper." With that rudimentary system, Webster published his staggering landmark "American Dictionary of the English Language" in 1828. It spelled and defined 70,000 words ...

Webster’s Dictionary, 1828 defines opinion as  “The judgement which the mind forms of any proposition, statement, theory, or ...

In 1806 he published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, and then began work on An American Dictionary of the English Language. In order to complete this project, Webster researched ...

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Treaty with the Western Cherokee, 1828. Image courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

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People take those classics, mix ’n’ match ’em and then slowly (or quickly) turn them into definitive American dishes. And then we oftentimes send the reformulated food back out into the ...