Chambers English Dictionary

by Sidney I. Landau (Consultant editor)

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An edition of Chambers 20th Century Dictionary which contains 190,000 references and 265,000 definitions. It has a rich selection of North American, Australasian, Indian, Caribbean, Scottish, Irish and South African words, and contains appendices.

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There may be a better english desk dictionary, but I haven't found it. If you can't benefit from the Chambers Cambridge English Dictionary, you haven't had enough education to beat off a swarm of attacking adverbs. This one is my personal standard against which I measure other desk dictionaries. Believe me, some are about as useful for serious use as a sieve is for drinking Guiness stout. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Landau, Sidney I.	Consultant editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Davidson, George W.	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Frost, Pandora Kerr	Assistant editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Kelly, Mary Jane	Assistant editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
McGauran, Fergus	Assistant editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Ramson, W. S.	Consultant editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Schwarz, Catherine	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Seaton, Anne	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Sherrard, Rachel	Assistant editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed
Tebbit, Virginia	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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Is a (non-series) sequel to

Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary by A.M. Macdonald

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Chambers English Dictionary

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1901 First published as Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

1988 Published as Chambers English Dictionary

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