The English dictionary passed through many stages before it became the same form today. The earliest dictionaries in the English language were glossaries of French, Spanish or Latin words along with their definitions in English. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was "A Table AlphabeticallAlphabetical,", written by an English schoolteacher by the name of Robert Cawdrey, in 1604, and it was only contained of difficult words. And theThe earliest word reference books for English-speaking people were Bilingualbilingual glossaries thatwhich provided the English equivalent for Latin or French wordwords. The earliest known Latin-English dictionary have beenwas written as early as 1440. Most of the early lexicographers were schoolmasters who compiled glossaries or dictionaries as teaching aids for their students e.g. Richard Mulcaster’s “Elementarie” in 1582. In the early eighteenth century , the hard word moved from tradition to more useful, general meanings. And inIn 1702 it was the first English Dictionary” Dictionary attempt for systematic coverage of common words, as well as difficult ones. After that, in 1755, we havehad a Samuel Johnson’s publishedJohnson publish his dictionary. Samuel Johnson now he is probably one of the most well-known people with regard to dictionaries as he wrote, probably, the most famous dictionary atof the time . In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Thomas Sheridan’s “A General Dictionary of the English Language" was a major advance in pronunciation . Then this we bring isthis to the nineteenth century with Noah Webster’s “The American Spelling Book”andBook,” which went through many editions. Then came Richard Chenevix Trench andwho presented criticisms of dictionaries, and suggested that lexicographers should function not as tastemakers but as historians.Trench’s criticisms formed the basis of the guiding principle behind what would becomebecome the “Oxford English DictionaryDictionary' and Manymany editors have worked on this project.At that timtime, the Dictionarydictionary was supposed to take ten years but it took fifty. After that the dictionary becomebecame larger and more comprehensive; dictionaries were the result of the war of dictionaries.