#CHAMBERS DICTIONARY OF ETYMOLOGY FOR FREE#

Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of the English Language.If you pause to read Chambers while solving a puzzle, you may also find some quirky definitions in the best Johnsonian tradition: try ECLAIR and MIDDLE AGE for example. Edinburgh: Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd, 2001. ^ Words, Wit and Wisdom: 100 Years of the Chambers Dictionary, compiled by Ian Brookes, Jamie Nathan and Hazel Norris.

#CHAMBERS DICTIONARY OF ETYMOLOGY FOR FREE#

This dictionary can be accessed for free online. Also on sale is the smaller 21st Century Dictionary of 1664 pages, where 'the focus is on the English that people use today, and definitions are given in straightforward, accessible language'. That has been followed by the thirteenth edition published in 2014. This edition is available for mobile use as an iPhone, iPad, or Android app. The twelfth edition of The Chambers Dictionary was published in August 2011 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd and runs to 1936 pages with 62,500 main entries.

These jocular definitions were removed by the publisher in the 1970s, but many of them were reinstated in 1983 because of the affection in which they were held by readers. A second edition came out in 1898, and was followed in. Examples of such definitions include those for éclair ('a cake, long in shape but short in duration') and middle-aged ('between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner'). It was an expanded version of Chamberss Etymological Dictionary of 1867, compiled by James Donald. It contains many more dialectal, archaic, unconventional and eccentric words than its rivals, and is noted for its occasional wryly humorous definitions.

TCD is widely used by British crossword solvers and setters, and by Scrabble players (though it is no longer the official Scrabble dictionary). A second edition came out in 1898, and was followed in 1901 by a new compact edition called Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary. It was an expanded version of Chambers's Etymological Dictionary of 1867, compiled by James Donald.

The Chambers Dictionary ( TCD) was first published by William and Robert Chambers as Chambers's English Dictionary in 1872. English language dictionary first published in 1872

Chambers dictionary of etymology