The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
abstract:The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is an American dictionary of the English language published by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin, the first edition of which appeared in 1969. Its creation was spurred by the controversy over the Webster's Third New International Dictionary.
According to Dictionary.com, theAmericanHeritageDictionaryoftheEnglishLanguage, Fourth Edition, included the term with essentially the same definition in 2000.