Promoting an 1890s edition of the dictionary (Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc.) unabridged noun A big dictionary. unabridged adjective (Of a dictionary) big. We’re so used to these definitions—most ...
Ever since the publication of its shocking Third Edition in 1961, foes and friends of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, familiarly known as “the Unabridged,” have wondered when the G. and ...