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{{short description|English language encyclopedic dictionary by William Dwight Whitney}}
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{{Infobox book series
| name             = ''The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia''
| image            = CenturyDictionarypage1.png
| image_caption    = First alphabetical page of the 1911 edition
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| editors          = [[William Dwight Whitney]]<br>[[Benjamin Eli Smith]]
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| country          = United States
| language         = English
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| publisher        = [[The Century Company]]
| pub_date         = 1889–1891 (first edition, volumes 1–6)<br>1895 (volumes 1–10)<br>1906 (volumes 1–12)
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| number_of_books  = 12
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| followed by      = The New Century Dictionary
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'''''The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia''''' is one of the largest [[encyclopedic dictionary|encyclopedic dictionaries]] of the English language. It was compared favorably with the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]],'' and frequently consulted for more factual information than would normally be the case for a dictionary.