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In 1598, John Florio published a dictionary of Italian and English. This is the first English dictionary giving meaning to words using quotations ("Illustrations"); so far, these dictionaries do not have actual word definitions. This was greatly changed with the alphabet of the table of principal, Robert Cawdrey, announced in 1604. It contains only 2,449 words, and there are no words beginning with W, X or Y, but this is the first English dictionary.
The earliest English dictionary is the definition of French, Spanish or Latin vocabulary and English. The term "dictionary" was invented in the UK in 1220 and was cast by Mr. Garland's John John - he wrote a book to support the Latin Dictionarius "wording". In 1582, an elementary list of 8,000 English words was created by elementary Richard Mulcaster. The first pure English alphabet dictionary is A Table Alphabeticall written in 1604 by British teacher Robert Cawdrey. The only surviving copy is Bodlean's Oxford Library. This dictionary and many imitators following it were untrusted and considered to be undecided