A Dictionary of 20th Century Communism.

This dates back to the early 20th century ; the Oxford English Dictionary notes its first usage in this capacity in 1913.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " the term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 ," and the Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 states that pogroms " were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire.

The Oxford English Dictionary cites this word as evolving slowly through roughly the last third of the 20th century, with the first cited reference being poet Jaime Carrero using neorriqueño in 1964 as a Spanish-language adjective combining neoyorquino and puertorriqueño.

" The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED ) records that the phrase " big blond beast " was used in the 20th century to refer specifically to men " of the Nordic type " ( that is to say, blond-haired ).

In his book The Human Body, Isaac Asimov noted a comment about the term idiopathic made in the 20th edition of Stedman's Medical Dictionary: " A high-flown term to conceal ignorance ".

According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Russell was born on the 20th of September, 1766.

In addition to his campaigning for Sibelius, Downes, according to Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, did much to advance the cause of other 20th century composers, including Richard Strauss, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich in the U. S.

* Dictionary of American English, a dictionary of terms appearing in English in the United States ( 20th century )

* Dictionary of 20th Century Music Thames & Hudson 1974

Intended to pick up where the Oxford English Dictionary left off, it covers American English words and phrases in use from the first English settlements up to the start of the 20th century.

A Dictionary of 20th century artists, trends and anti-images.

Some writers in the 20th century erroneously speculated that walking the plank may be a myth created by cinema ; however, the phrase " walking the plank " is recorded in English writer Francis Grose's " Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue ", which was published in 1788 ( first published in 1785 ).

* " 20th Century Biographical Dictionary of Notable Americans ", Vol.

* Slonimsky, Nicolas, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians, edited by Laura Kuhn.

* " Komar and Melamid " The Prestel Dictionary of Art and Artists in the 20th Century Prestel Verlag, New York, 2000.

* Baker's Biographical Dictionary of 20th Century Classical Musicians ( 1997 )

Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians describes him as " the most celebrated British music critic in the first half of the 20th century.

She has contributed to The Dictionary of Literary Biography: 20th Century Swedish Writers.

* Dictionary of the History of Ideas: Theories of Beauty to the Mid-Nineteenth Century

* Powell J., Blakeley D. W., Powell, T. Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century, 1800 – 1914.

Meanwhile, he wrote entries, ultimately thousands during 1883 – 1909, on philosophy, logic, science, and other subjects for the encyclopedic Century Dictionary.

' Positivism in the Twentieth Century ( Logical Empiricism )', Dictionary of the History of Ideas, 1974, Gale Group ( Electronic Edition )

* Easton's Bible Dictionary ( 1897 ), another popular 19th Century Bible Dictionary.

* Mockumentary definitions at Collins English Dictionary and Dictionary. com's 21st Century Lexicon

Samuel Johnson ( author of A Dictionary of the English Language and a member of Pembroke College ) was a frequent visitor to the Senior Common Room at University College during the 18th Century ).

* Andrew Pyle ( editor ), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers ( 2000 ), article pp. 52 – 4.

* Andrew Pyle ( editor ), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers ( 2000 ), article pp. 54 – 5.

* Andrew Pyle ( editor ), Dictionary of Seventeenth Century British Philosophers ( 2000 ), article pp. 59 – 62.

The Dickson Baseball Dictionary, cites William Henry Nugent's work asserting that it was derived from the fancy, a collective term from England used to describe the fans of a specific hobby or sport from the early 18th Century to the 19th, especially to the followers of boxing.

Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: A Guide to 8, 500 Battles from Antiquity Through the Twenty-first Century.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia, was based on Noah Webster ’ s American Dictionary edition of 1841.

The American edition of Charles Annandale's four volume revision of The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1883 by the Century Company, was more comprehensive than the Unabridged.

The Century Dictionary, an expansion of the Imperial first published from 1889 to 1891, covered a larger vocabulary until the publication of Webster's Second in 1934, after the Century had ceased publication.

Among larger dictionaries during this period was ( non-Merriam ) Webster's Universal Dictionary ( also published as Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary ) which traced its roots to Noah Webster and called itself " unabridged ", but had less than half the vocabulary and paled in scholarship against the Merriam editions.

The Century Cyclopedia of Names: A Pronouncing and Etymological Dictionary of Names in Geography, Biography, Mythology, History, Ethnology, Art, Archæology, Fiction, Etc.

Dictionary. com's 21st Century Lexicon defines civil society as 1 ) the aggregate of non-governmental organizations and institutions that manifest interests and will of citizens or 2 ) individuals and organizations in a society which are independent of the government.

: Hart's Rules and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors call the British style " new " quoting.

The Oxford English Dictionary applies the term to English " as spoken or written in the British Isles ; esp the forms of English usual in Great Britain ", reserving " Hiberno-English " for the " English language as spoken and written in Ireland ".

* " Fermanagh " A Dictionary of British Place-Names.

This also has to do with the different models preferred by British and American players .< ref name =" Harvard Dictionary of Music ">

* Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 3rd ed.

Dictionary of British Classicists, 1500 – 1960, ( 2004 ).

He used the term " General British " parallel " General American " in his 1970s publications of A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of American and British English.

He was a member of the London-based Political Economy Club and the British Dictionary of National Biography says of him:

* Jameela Lares, " William Ames ," The Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 281: British Rhetoricians and Logicians, 1500 – 1660, Second Series, Detroit: Gale, 2003, pp. 3 – 13.

* Ian Shaw & Paul T. Nicholson ( 1995 ) The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt

" Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians writes of Novello that he was " until the advent of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the 20th-century's most consistently successful composer of British musicals.

*" Perthshire " from A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland by Samuel Lewis, London, 1846 ( British History Online

A Dictionary of Modern English Usage ( 1926 ), by Henry Watson Fowler ( 1858 – 1933 ), is a style guide to British English usage, pronunciation, and writing.

Moreover, he researched the Dictionary assisted by Francis, who died in 1918 of tuberculosis, which he contracted in service with the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ).

The Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names translates this as " muddy valley by a ridge "; the fūl-element, which meant " foul " or " muddy " was used in the earliest known reference to the area, in a charter by Robert de Lacey, around the year 1200, as used in the Middle English spelling fulebachope.

* Howard Colvin, Dictionary of British Architects 3rd ed.

Although " collectable " is the spelling listed first for the adjective by the Oxford English Dictionary and is standard spelling in British English, the dictionary observes that the "- ible " form is also valid and this has come to be the common spelling in the United States.

" William Pitt the Younger " in R. Eccleshall and G. Walker, eds., Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers ( Routledge, 1998 ), pp. 85 – 94

In his 1989 Dictionary of Invective, British editor Hugh Rawson lists 16 phrases that use the word Chinese to denote " incompetence, fraud and disorganization.

* Colvin, Howard, ( 1995 ) A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840.

The American Webster's Third New International Dictionary gives plurals in the order " Narcissus ", " Narcissuses ", and " Narcissi ", but the British Compact Oxford English Dictionary lists just " Narcissi " and " Narcissuses ".