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Books like Webster’s Universal College Dictionary

Across Dictionaries and Reference — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as Webster’s Universal College Dictionary by Random House.

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Top related books to Webster’s Universal College Dictionary

A handpicked shelf of strong matches chosen for shared themes, literary overlap, and a broader spread of voices.

Random House Webster’s Dictionary Fourth Edition, Revised and Updated

Random House

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Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition — Editors of Webster’s New World Coll

Editors of Webster's New World Coll

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The Meaning of Liff The Original Dictionary Of Things There Should Be Words For

Douglas Adams

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Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker The Visual Dictionary With Exclusive Cross-Sections

Pablo Hidalgo

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The Book of Nonexistent Words

Stefano Massini

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Random House Webster’s Pocket Russian Dictionary Russian-English, English-Russian : Russko-angliĭskiĭ, Anglo-russkiĭ Slovarʹ

Irmhild C. Sperrle

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The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

Calvert Watkins

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Random House Webster’s Crossword Puzzle Dictionary, 4th Edition

Stephen Elliott

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A Dictionary of English Folklore

Jacqueline Simpson

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The Enlarged Devil’s Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce

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Over the Top

Arthur Guy Empey

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The American Heritage Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus

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There’s a Word for it The Explosion of the American Language Since 1900

Sol Steinmetz

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The Penguin Dictionary of Classical Mythology

Pierre Grimal

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The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy

Eric Donald Hirsch

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#16

A Dictionary of Tolkien

David Day

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An Avalanche of Anoraks

Robert J. White

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Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature

Allen Stroud

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100 Words to Make You Sound Smart

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Webster’s New Pocket Dictionary — The Editors of the Webster’s New Wo

The Editors of the Webster's New Wo

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Troublesome Words

Bill Bryson

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Beginner’s German Dictionary

Helen Davies

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#23

A Dictionary of Islam: Being a Cyclopedia of the Doctrines, Rites, Ceremonies, and Customs (1885)

Thomas Patrick Hughes

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Collins Dictionary of Quotations

Alexander Norman Jeffares

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The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Dictionaries, Reference — the same threads that run through Webster’s Universal College Dictionary by Random House. Among the authors featured: Random House, Editors of Webster's New World Coll, Douglas Adams, Pablo Hidalgo, and others.