Nathan Bailey
British lexicographer and philologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the British trampolinist, see Nathan Bailey (gymnast). For the American-born Canadian restaurateur, see Nat Bailey.
Nathan Bailey (died 27 June 1742), was an English philologist and lexicographer.[1][2] He was the author of several dictionaries, including his Universal Etymological Dictionary, which appeared in some 30 editions between 1721 and 1802. Bailey's Dictionarium Britannicum (1730 and 1736) was the primary resource mined by Samuel Johnson for his Dictionary of the English Language (1755).[3][4][5]