Current & Clear. Random House concedes that Webster’s Third contains more words (it has 450,000 of the roughly half-million in the English language).

In the first five weeks after its publication, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language (TIME, Sept. 30) sold more than 250,000 copies, began to appear on the bestseller lists, and is ...

Now appearing on bookstore shelves is a new dictionary, the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, which is, Random House contends, notable for several reasons: It has far more entries than ...

According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, remorse is defined as a “deep and painful regard for wrongdoing.” A synonym is contrition.

NEW YORK — During the 44 years she has commuted to work on public transportation, Leonore Hauck has been exposed repeatedly to language that the dictionary calls “vulgar” or “slang.” ...

A lot has happened in the world and especially in the world of Wall Street since my Random House Dictionary of the English Language, unabridged edition, was published in 1966, just as I was ...

The Random House Dictionary Of The English Language (College Edition)that I have used for 35 years has this definition for liberal: “Free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant”.

According to the Random House Dictionary of the English Language, remorse is defined as a “deep and painful regard for wrongdoing.” A synonym is contrition.