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Dewey
n.
family name; Melvil Dewey (1851-1931), American educator and inventor of the Dewey Decimal System; John Dewey (1859-1952), American philosopher and educator, one of the founders of the school of Pragmatism
Dewey
Dewey may refer to:
Places
- Dewey, Arizona
- Dewey, Illinois
- Dewey, Kentucky
- Dewey, Oklahoma
- Dewey, South Dakota
- Dewey, Utah
- Dewey, Skagit County, Washington
- Dewey, Whatcom County, Washington
- Dewey, Wisconsin (disambiguation), multiple places
- Dewey Beach, Delaware
- Dewey County, Oklahoma
- Dewey County, South Dakota
- Dewey Marsh, Wisconsin
- McGregor, British Columbia or Dewey, British Columbia
- Wasco, California or Dewey, California
- Dewey Square, Boston, Massachusetts
Dewey
Noun
1. United States librarian who founded the decimal system of classification (1851-1931)
(synonym) Melvil Dewey, Melville Louis Kossuth Dewey
(hypernym) librarian, bibliothec
2. a United States naval officer remembered for his victory at Manila Bay in the Spanish-American War
(synonym) George Dewey, Admiral Dewey
(hypernym) naval officer
3. United States pragmatic philosopher who advocated progressive education (1859-1952)
(synonym) John Dewey
(hypernym) philosopher
Dewey
n.
Dewey
Dewey
(n.) = Dewey.
Ex: Cutter's library possessed 105,000 volumes at the time he did his Rules in 1876, while Melvil Dewey's library had 30,000 volumes when his classification scheme was first published in the same year.
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* Clasificación Decimal de Dewey (DDC o DC) = Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC o DC).
* clasificación de Dewey, la = Dewey scheme, the.