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1. www.oed.comOxford English Dictionary

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   Here you can find a series of commentaries on the History of English, charting the history of the English language from Old English to the present day. The OED is the definitive record of the English language, featuring 600,000 words, 3 million quotations, and over 1,000 years of English.

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2. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.comOxford Learner's Dictionaries | Find definitions ...

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   The largest and most trusted free online dictionary for learners of British and American English with definitions, pictures, example sentences, synonyms, antonyms, word origins, audio pronunciation, and more. Look up the meanings of words, abbreviations, phrases, and idioms in our free English Dictionary.

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_dictionaries_byList of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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   Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms.

5. www.oed.com › discover › middle-english-an-overviewMiddle English – an overview - Oxford English Dictionary

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   Two very important linguistic developments characterize Middle English: in grammar, English came to rely less on inflectional endings and more on word order to convey grammatical information. (If we put this in more technical terms, it became less ‘synthetic’ and more ‘analytic’.) Change was gradual, and has different outcomes in ...

6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Oxford_Dictionary_of_EnglishOxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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   The dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – it is a separate dictionary which strives to represent faithfully the current usage of English words. The Revised Second Edition contains 355,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including biographical references and thousands of encyclopaedic entries.

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7. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Oxford_English_DictionaryOxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...

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   Is the Oxford English dictionary based on OED?

   • The dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – it is a separate dictionary which strives to represent faithfully the current usage of English words. The Revised Second Edition contains 355,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including biographical references and thousands of encyclopaedic entries.

   Oxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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   What is the OED Dictionary?

   • It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases past and present, from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from dictionaries of current English, in which the focus is on present-day meanings.

   About the OED - Oxford English Dictionary

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   What does Ode stand for?

   • The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003.

   Oxford Dictionary of English - Wikipedia

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   What's the difference between Oxford a to Z and OED?

   • "The new, 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary: Oxford's A to Z – The origin". The Guardian. London. The Encyclopaedia Britannica and the Dictionary of National Biography are indeed yet mighty, but not quite what they used to be, whereas the OED has gone from strength to strength and is one of the wonders of the world.

   Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   What is Oxford Dictionaries Online?

   • Oxford Dictionaries Online also includes the New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford Thesaurus of English, Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus and grammar and usage resources. The online version added more than 80,000 words from the OED in August 2015.

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   What is the difference between Oxford Dictionary & Concise Oxford Dictionary?

   • A completely new edition was produced from the OED2 and published in 1993, with revisions in 2002 and 2007. The Concise Oxford Dictionary is a different work, which aims to cover current English only, without the historical focus.

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9. www.oed.com › information › about-the-oedAbout the OED - Oxford English Dictionary

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   The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is widely regarded as the accepted authority on the English language. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and usage of 500,000 words and phrases past and present, from across the English-speaking world. As a historical dictionary, the OED is very different from dictionaries of current English ...