Template:R:Webster 1913

The following documentation is located at Template:R:Webster 1913/documentation.

Useful links: subpage list • links • redirects • transclusions • errors (parser/module) • sandbox

This template may be used in "References" sections and on talk pages to cite an online version of Noah Webster and Noah Porter, editors (1913), Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language: The Dictionary Proper being the Authentic Ed. of Webster's International Dictionary of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety, Ed. under the Supervision of Noah Porter to which is Now Added a Department of New Words, together with Many Valuable Special Features‎, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Co., →OCLC.

• |1= or |entry= – the name of the entry in Webster's Dictionary. If this parameter is not stated, the name of the Wiktionary entry is used.
• |pos= or |part of speech= – the part of speech of the entry. By default, the template italicizes the value assigned to the parameter and adds a full stop (period) to the end. To turn off the default formatting for the purpose of specifying a different formatting using wikitext markup and templates, specify |noformat=1 or |noformat=yes: see the example below.
• |2= or |url= – if the default URL is not linking to the correct webpage, use this parameter to indicate the URL of the Webster's Dictionary webpage to be linked to.
• |subentry= – a term that appears as a subentry under an entry.
• |subpos= – the part of speech of the subentry.
• |3= or |accessdate= – The date on which Webster's Dictionary website was accessed. Use either of these date formats: 1 January 2017 or January 1, 2017.
• |4= or |passage= – a passage quoted from Webster's Dictionary.
• |nodot= – by default, the template adds a full stop (period) at the end of the citation. To suppress this punctuation, use |nodot=1 or |nodot=yes.

General use

• Wikitext:
  • {{R:Webster 1913|pos=n}} (assuming the template is used in the plume entry, the template will link by default to the name of the entry); or
  • {{R:Webster 1913|entry=plume|pos=n}}
• Result: “plume, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Wikitext:
  • {{R:Webster 1913|entry=white horse}}; or
  • {{R:Webster 1913|white horse}}
• Result: “white horse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Specifying a subentry that appears on the page of a main entry

• Wikitext: {{R:Webster 1913|subentry=plume grass|entry=plume|pos=n}}
• Result: “plume grass” under “plume, n.”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.