"{{{1}}}". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.

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Purpose

Generates a citation and link for a word defined in the online edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language.

Usage

As with all reference notes, the template should be inserted after any punctuation, such as a period or comma. Also note that "AHDict", which redirects to the template Cite American Heritage Dictionary, may be used in its place for brevity.

There is only one parameter:

{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|word}}

• word: Word that has been defined and thus needs a citation; a required parameter.

In addition, this template accepts all parameters that {{cite encyclopedia}} does, except <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|encyclopedia= and <syntaxhighlight lang="wikitext" inline style="display: none;" />|publisher=.

Examples

• Triumphantly she said, "Go fish!"<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|fish}}</ref>
  

This produces:

Triumphantly she said, "Go fish!"

and the following in the references list:

"fish". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.

• The class was studying geodesy, which is the part of geology that studies the size and shape of the earth.<ref>{{Cite American Heritage Dictionary|geodesy}}</ref>

This produces:

The class was studying geodesy, which is the area in geology that studies the size and shape of the earth.

and the following citation in the references list:

"geodesy". The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). HarperCollins.

Linkage

The template automatically generates an anchor in the format Reference-AHDict-{{{1}}}.

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:Cite American Heritage Dictionary in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for Cite American Heritage Dictionary

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