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Definition of Noah Webster
1. Noun. United States lexicographer (1758-1843).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Noah Webster
Literary usage of Noah Webster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Old-time Schools and School-books by Clifton Johnson (1904)
"VII Noah Webster AND HIS SPELLING-BOOK Noah Webster was born October 16,1758, in
Hartford, Connecticut, about three miles from the centre of the city. ..."
2. Old-time Schools and School-books by Clifton Johnson (1904)
"VII Noah Webster AND HIS SPELLING-BOOK Noah Webster was ... His father, Noah
Webster, Sr., was a respectable farmer, a deacon in the church, and a justice ..."
3. The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americansby James Barton Longacre, American Academy of the Fine Arts, James Herring by James Barton Longacre, American Academy of the Fine Arts, James Herring (1835)
"Noah Webster. THE name of Noah Webster is familiar to almost the entire population
... Noah Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, on the 16th of ..."
4. The Massachusetts Teacher (1854)
"DICTIONARIES AND Noah Webster. THE subjoined extract has been sent to us by a
much respected friend, with the request that we would find a place for it in ..."
5. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1892)
"Noah Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, on the 16th of October,
1758, and died in New Haven, on the 28th of May, 1843, in the 85th year of his ..."
6. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1883)
"LOVE AND THE SPELLING-BOOK I had occasion many years ago to call attention to
the fact that the various biographical sketches and notices of Noah Webster, ..."
7. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1883)
"LOVE AND THE SPELLING-BOOK I had occasion many years ago to call attention to
the fact that the various biographical sketches and notices of Noah Webster, ..."
8. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson by Thomas Jefferson (1904)
"Noah Webster, AT HARTFORD. PHILADELPHIA, December 4, 1790. SIR,—Your favor of
October 4 came to my hands on the 20th of November. Application was made a day ..."
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