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What was Noah Webster's profession?

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A lexicographer is a person who compiles dictionaries. Noah Webster was an American lexicographer, lexicographer, and political writer who is best known as the compiler of an American dictionary of the English language. Webster's first dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1828 and was the first dictionary to be written specifically for American English.
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