intellectuals

non-native learners

inquisitive readers

diachronic

synchronic

V. Pidmohylnyi

A. Krymskyi and S. Yefremov

Ye. Tymchenko

Webster’s dictionary

Hrinchenko’s dictionary

Johnson’s dictionary

the follower of

Johnson’s tradition of dictionary compiling

the follower of

Webster’s tradition of dictionary compiling

the compiler of

the first American encyclopaedic dictionary

extended number of Ukrainian synonymic rows

absence of synonymic rows

limited number of Ukrainian synonymic rows

one language only

various spheres of

life

most interesting words

hard words

the vernacular words

polysyllables and complicated words

slang and unconventional vocabulary