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Set has the most definitions in an unabridged dictionary.
Examples of unabridged works include classic novels such as "War and Peace" by Leo Tolstoy, "Moby Dick" by Herman Melville, and "Middlemarch" by George Eliot. Unabridged versions of these books contain the complete text as intended by the author, without any abridgments or edits.
The prefix of "unabridged" is "un-," which means "not" or "opposite of."
Rhetorical questions. And what are questions, answers, and rhetorical-entries, without definitions of their key terms ?
Please hand me the unabridged dictionary.
It has a lot to do with size, an unabridged dictionary is a considerable publication
You would likely find a short, easy-to-understand definition of the word "vanquish" in an abridged dictionary of the English language. A legal dictionary would focus more on legal terminology and definitions as they relate to the law. An unabridged dictionary of the Latin language would provide detailed definitions of Latin words, not English words like "vanquish."
Probably not. There always seems to be a few words which can be found in one dictionary which are not found in others. What unabridged means is that the dictionary contains all the words which the dictionary writer wrote definitions for. An abridged dictionary contains only those words that an editor thought you would likely need to look up, and leaves out those which are extremely technical or obsolete.
an unabridged dictionary
An abridged dictionary is a condensed version of a full-size dictionary, typically containing a selection of the most commonly used words and definitions. These dictionaries are smaller in size and contain fewer entries than their unabridged counterparts.
Not cut or shortened; complete.
The unabridged version of A New Hope is superior to the abridged, or 'children's' versions of it because it tells even more of the original story than what was shown in the movie, vastly improving upon it.