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Template:Wiktionarypar2 Webster or Webber, a weaver (originally a female weaver); operator of looms in medieval/early modern England.

Webster (referring to Noah Webster) is also (in North America) a common term for a dictionary — the Webster's Dictionary — to the point that the Merriam-Webster Company attempted unsuccessfully to defend it as a trademark.

• Webster (comics) was also the name of a comic strip in Shiver and Shake
• Webster (sitcom), a television sitcom — Webster is a small black boy played by actor Emmanuel Lewis
• Webster protocol, a dictionary network protocol, now surpassed by the DICT protocol

People

Webster is the surname of some famous people:

• Daniel Webster, American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Massachusetts, and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century
• Noah Webster, American lexicographer
• Paul Francis Webster, American lyricist
• Jean Webster, American writer
• John Webster, English Renaissance playwright
• John Clarence Webster, Canadian physician and historian
• Martell Webster, American professional basketball player
• Nicholas Webster, American 20th Century film and television director
• Robert Webster, Australian and American virologist

Places

• Webster, Florida
• Webster, Iowa
• Webster, Maine
• Webster, Massachusetts
• Webster, Minnesota
• Webster, New Hampshire
• Webster (village), New York, a municipality
• Webster (town), New York, a township
• Webster, North Carolina, a census place
• Webster, South Dakota
• Webster, Texas
• Webster, West Virginia
• Webster, Wisconsin:
  • Webster, Vernon County, Wisconsin
  • Webster, Burnett County, Wisconsin

• Webster City, Iowa
• Webster Groves, Missouri
  • Webster University, a liberal arts university with satellite campuses worldwide
• Webster Springs, West Virginia

See also

• Webber

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