Meanings Change Consider how some modern dictionaries treat the subject.

This method of education views modernity as suspicious stating that modern dictionaries propagandize students.

There are only nine characters derived from this radical, and some modern dictionaries have discontinued its use as a section header.

The count of commonly used section headers in modern abridged dictionaries is often less than 214.

The term Chinaman is described as being offensive in most modern dictionaries and studies of usage.

And isn't it interesting that all of the modern dictionaries simply say "presumed to be offensive" without giving any reason for this belief?

Most modern dictionaries continue to list it as such.

Teaching users about words they don't already know has been, historically, a primary aim of lexicography, and modern dictionaries do this well.

These tables compare modern and notable English dictionaries, split by market segment.

Most modern dictionaries give one of the meanings for the word caravan as "a camper equipped with living quarters".