Oxford English Dictionary Online

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The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language in the world, tracing the evolution and use of words. The Oxford English Dictionary Online gives you not only the latest content of the full Oxford English Dictionary, but also the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, providing more depth and breadth than ever before.

Oxford English Dictionary Online

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The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive record of the English language in the world, tracing the evolution and use of words. The Oxford English Dictionary Online gives you not only the latest content of the full Oxford English Dictionary , but also the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, providing more depth and breadth than ever before. * More than 600,000 meanings of words, using more than 3 million quotations to show how words have been used over the entire history of the English language * The only English dictionary that aims to trace the first recorded use of every sense of every word, to show when it entered the language * The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary allows users to explore themes, meanings, and ideas through the history of English * Covers British, American, and other varieties of English, and all types of usage from formal to slang * Updated four times a year with thousands of new and revised meanings * Each entry shows sense development, quotation evidence, and links to related entries - unlocking the history of every word * Etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and pronunciations using the International Phonetic Alphabet are provided * Search and browse by subject, region, usage, or by language of origin - results can be displayed as a timeline * Explore the major sources of the Oxford English Dictionary - writers and works, and trace their role in shaping the language * Print, email, and cite entries * Personalize your profile with My OED and save your own searches * Sign up to receive Word of the Day and follow the OED on Twitter @OEDonline Subscriber services include * External linking to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, * COUNTER compliant usage statistics * Training and promotional materials at www.oup.com/online * MARC 21 records * Extensive online help and excellent customer and technical support * Email alert service for content and functionality updates, join at www.oup.com/online/emailnews

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Word window: week twelve

This week is the twelfth instalment of our 'Word Window' series, in which we present some of the Oxford English Dictionary's more remarkable words. Last week, we discussed the triple meaning of 'Big Apple'. This week we have chosen a rather mysterious term; 'Cruciverbalist''¦

Posted on May 18, 2009

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Oxford's word window: week four

We are now in week four of our 'Word Window' series, in which we display an Oxford Word of the Week, in the windows of our New York Offices. Last week's word was: 'Rashomon' n.: 'Designating something resembling or suggestive of the film Rashomon.' This week's word is 'Mondegreen''¦

Posted on March 23, 2009

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Absurd entries in the OED: an introduction by Ammon Shea

All dictionaries have mistakes. Ghost words creep in, there are occasional misspellings, or perhaps the printer was hung over one day and misplaced some punctuation. In addition to these normal forms of human error there are others that are created by language, as it continues its inexorable change.

Posted on March 20, 2008

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Words - Episode 16 - The Oxford Comment

The Oxford Comment speaks with a teenage crossword genius and then takes you on a tour of the OED archive.

Posted on May 23, 2011

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Bada-Bing! - Episode 11 - The Oxford Comment

With the Academy Awards right around the corner, we thought it might be fun to look at the lexical impact of films and some words that were actually coined by movies.

Posted on February 23, 2011

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