Saturday, February 4, 2012

How many words are there in a standard dictionary?

such as Webster dictionary?How many words are there in a standard dictionary?
The 11th edition of the "Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary" includes over 225,000 definitions.



"Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged" contains more than 450,000 entries.



The full "Oxford English Dictionary", second edition, contains more than 615,000 entries.



(As you can see, a 200,000 word dictionary is adequate for college and university, as long as your major isn't English. It's estimated that an average college graduate has an active vocabulary of 60,000 words and an additional passive vocabulary of 75,000 words. ("Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language", Crystal, David ))How many words are there in a standard dictionary?
Just don't expect to learn all the words in a dictionary! There is a massive amount of words listed you will never hear/use/need.How many words are there in a standard dictionary?
I stopped counting at 9 173.

Got bored. but there's more then that (Y)
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