When was the first dictionary published?
Robert Cawdrey’s A Table Alphabeticall as the first English dictionary, written in 1604. The first dictionary to be at all comprehensive was Thomas Blount’s dictionary Glossographia of 1656. In 1755, Johnson’s Dictionary appeared in two large folio volumes. It represented about nine years of work, done almost single-handedly In 1806, Noah Webster’s dictionary was published by the G&C Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts which still publishes Merriam-Webster dictionaries, but the term Webster’s is considered generic and can be used by any dictionary. The most complete dictionary of the English language is the Oxford English Dictionary. The first edition was properly begun in 1860 and was completed in 1928, by which time a supplement that took an additional five years to complete was already necessary.
