That was how I got a free Merriam-Webster dictionary for defining words in read mode.

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He frets about the guides who say the statue of Daniel Webster in Central Park represents the guy behind the Merriam-Webster dictionary.

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The bell may have tolled for the term when it was added to the Merriam Webster dictionary in 2006, or maybe two years later when Mitt Romney uttered the word on the campaign trail.

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If you type in its old URL, Word.com, it will now take you to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.

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Given my close working relationship with risk, I decided to check out its official meaning in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary.

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Published in Science, that paper gave the best-yet estimate of the true number of words in English a million, far more than any dictionary has recorded (the 2002 Webster's Third New International Dictionary has 348, 000).

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Merriam-Webster put a free dictionary online starting in 1996 and migrated to a freemium model over time.

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Compare these two entries for dragonfly: "Any of a suborder of odonate insects that are larger and stouter than damselflies, " begins Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary.

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The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has no record of such a word.

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