The latest edition of the Oxford English Dictionary still defines the word as "A man and woman united by love or marriage."
The third edition of the American Heritage Dictionary, published in 1992, defines the word as "a fundamental social group typically consisting of a man and woman and their offspring."
An edition of the Oxford English Dictionary appearing next year will define the word as "the legal or religious union of two people."
The 2000 edition of the American Heritage Dictionary also defines jennet, with the alternative spelling genet, as a small Spanish saddle horse.
The 1994 edition of the Carnegie Classification defined Research I universities as those that:
The 1762 edition of the dictionary published by the Académie française defines libelle as an "offensive work."
The first (2004) edition of this book defined 126 terms related to disease management.
My latest edition of Webster's New Geographical Dictionary defines Tyrone as "County, W. cen.
The 1972 edition of the Sprach-Brockhaus dictionary defines Ausrottung as "complete annihilation".
The 1772 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica defined the stone as follows: