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The eleventh edition of The Chambers Dictionary of the English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 was published in August 2008 by Chambers Harrap Publishers
Chambers Harrap

Chambers Harrap Publishers is a reference publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom and now holds the property rights of the venerable W.R.Chambers Publishers and its competitor George G....
.

William Chambers
William Chambers of Glenormiston

William Chambers of Glenormiston or William Chambers was a Scotland publisher and politician, the brother of Robert Chambers and both brothers were highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles....
 and Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers , was a Scotland author, periodical editor and publisher, who together in partnership with his older brother William Chambers of Glenormiston the publisher and politician were both highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles....
, the original writers of The Chambers Dictionary, lived in a small town in the Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders , often referred to simply as the Borders, is one of 32 local government Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the Metropolitan and non-metropolit...
 called Peebles
Peebles

Peebles is a burgh in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scotland Scottish Borders, lying on the River Tweed.Initially a market town, Peebles played a role in the woollen industry of the Scottish Borders up until the 1960s....
.

Originally published in 1901 as Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, the dictionary is widely used by British crossword
Crossword

A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of black and white squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers....
 solvers and setters, and by Scrabble
Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid....
 players.






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The eleventh edition of The Chambers Dictionary of the English language
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 was published in August 2008 by Chambers Harrap Publishers
Chambers Harrap

Chambers Harrap Publishers is a reference publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom and now holds the property rights of the venerable W.R.Chambers Publishers and its competitor George G....
.

William Chambers
William Chambers of Glenormiston

William Chambers of Glenormiston or William Chambers was a Scotland publisher and politician, the brother of Robert Chambers and both brothers were highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles....
 and Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers , was a Scotland author, periodical editor and publisher, who together in partnership with his older brother William Chambers of Glenormiston the publisher and politician were both highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles....
, the original writers of The Chambers Dictionary, lived in a small town in the Scottish Borders
Scottish Borders

The Scottish Borders , often referred to simply as the Borders, is one of 32 local government Council areas of Scotland of Scotland. It is bordered by Dumfries and Galloway in the west, South Lanarkshire and West Lothian in the north west, City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian to the north; and the Metropolitan and non-metropolit...
 called Peebles
Peebles

Peebles is a burgh in the committee area of Tweeddale, in the Scotland Scottish Borders, lying on the River Tweed.Initially a market town, Peebles played a role in the woollen industry of the Scottish Borders up until the 1960s....
.

Originally published in 1901 as Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary, the dictionary is widely used by British crossword
Crossword

A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of black and white squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers....
 solvers and setters, and by Scrabble
Scrabble

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid....
 players. It contains many more dialectal, archaic, unconventional and eccentric words than its rivals, and is noted for its occasional wryly humorous definitions. Examples of such definitions include those for éclair ("a cake, long in shape but short in duration…") and middle-aged ("between youth and old age, variously reckoned to suit the reckoner"). It is assumed these were originally smuggled in by subversive lexicographers—they were at one stage dropped by the publisher (e.g. "a long cake of choux pastry with a cream filling and chocolate or coffee icing"), but later reinstated as something of an attraction.

See also

  • Chambers Harrap Publishers
    Chambers Harrap

    Chambers Harrap Publishers is a reference publisher based in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom and now holds the property rights of the venerable W.R.Chambers Publishers and its competitor George G....
  • Chambers's Encyclopaedia
    Chambers's Encyclopaedia

    Chambers's Encyclopaedia , 1860-1868, 8vo, 10 vols., 8,283 pages, has no relationship with Cyclopaedia, or Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences of the 18th century, other than the editor of the latter work shared the same name as the publisher of this....
  • William Chambers of Glenormiston
    William Chambers of Glenormiston

    William Chambers of Glenormiston or William Chambers was a Scotland publisher and politician, the brother of Robert Chambers and both brothers were highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles....
  • Robert Chambers
    Robert Chambers

    Robert Chambers , was a Scotland author, periodical editor and publisher, who together in partnership with his older brother William Chambers of Glenormiston the publisher and politician were both highly influential in the mid-19th century in both scientific and political circles....


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