The Random House Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged was the original name of a large American dictionary, first published in 1966, and recently renamed the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...

The Random House publishing company entered the reference book market after World War II. They acquired rights to the Century Dictionary and the Dictionary of American English, both out of print. Their first dictionary was Clarence Barnhart's American College Dictionary, published in 1947, and based primarily on The New Century Dictionary, an abridgement of the Century. Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, which acquired it in 1998. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb. ... The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia was one of the largest and most highly regarded dictionaries of the English language. ... The Dictionary of American English was a dictionary of terms coined in the United States that was published in four volumes from 1938 to 1944. ... Clarence Lewis Barnhart (1900-1993) was an American lexicographer best known for writing the Thorndike-Barnhart series of graded dictionaries, which were based on word lists developed by psychological theorist Edward Thorndike. ... 1947 (MCMXLVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Following the mixed reception of Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, published in 1961, Random House decided to enter the market with a larger dictionary. Under editors Jess Stein and Lawrence Urdang, they augmented the American College Dictionary with large numbers of proper names, and published it in 1966 as the first edition of the Random House Dictionary of the English Language. Unabridged. It was the first dictionary to use computer typesetting. 1888 advertisement for Websters Dictionary Websters Dictionary is a common title given to English language dictionaries in the United States, deriving its name from American lexicographer Noah Webster. ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... Movable metal type Typesetting involves the presentation of textual material in an aesthetic form on paper or some other media. ...

An expanded second edition, edited by Stuart Berg Flexner, appeared in 1987, revised in 1993. This edition adopted the Merriam-Webster Collegiate innovation of adding dates for the entry of words into the language. Unlike the Collegiate, which cited the date of the first known citation, Random House indicated a range of dates. For example, where the Collegiate gave 1676, Random House might offer, 1670-80. [[1]] Stuart Berg Flexner is a lexicographer, editor and author, noted for his books on the origins of American words and expressions, including I Hear America Talking and Listening to America; as co-editor of the Dictionary of American Slang; and as chief editor of the Random House Dictionary, Second Edition. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Events January 29 - Feodor III becomes Tsar of Russia First measurement of the speed of light, by Ole Rømer Bacons Rebellion Russo-Turkish Wars commence. ...

Random House incorporated the name Webster's into its title after an injunction won by Merriam Webster preventing its use on their college edition was overturned on appeal. The name Random House Webster's is now used on many Random House publications. Random House is a publishing division of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann, which acquired it in 1998. ... Merriam-Webster, originally known as the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is a United States company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Websters An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). ...

Versions of the dictionary have been published under other names, including Webster's New Universal Dictionary (which was previously the name of an entirely different dictionary) and Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary.