For his 1755 "Dictionary of the English Language", he wrote definitions for more than 40,000 words
[DOC] [TLE] A Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia [PAR] Published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the 
English ... Over the previous 150 years more than twenty dictionaries had been ... 
of English words came out in 1658 and a dictionary of 40,000 words had been ... 
By 1747 Johnson had written his Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language,... [DOC] [TLE] A Dictionary of the English Language - Special collections [PAR] First published in 1755, this dictionary took Johnson and his small team of ... to 
write over 40,000 definitions and select nearly 114,000 illustrative quotations ... 
he used to compile his word list or how he went about selecting the quotations, ... 
Dodsley, more than just the instigator of the Dictionary, was in fact a lynchpin in 
the... [DOC] [TLE] A dictionary of the English language.