The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.
Features and benefits of OED Online
• Unprecedented access to the 20-volume Second Edition and the three Additions Series volumes, plus at least 1,800 new and revised entries each quarter
• Select how entries are displayed by turning pronunciations, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on and off
• Everything from simple word look-ups to sophisticated Boolean searching, using any of the fields in the Dictionary, can be done with speed and ease
• Find a term when you know the meaning but have forgotten the word
• Use wildcards if you are unsure of a spelling, or if you want to search for words with common characteristics
• Search for quotations from a specified year, or from a particular author and/or work
• Search for words which have come into English via a particular language
• Search pronunciations as well as accented and other special characters
• Search for first cited date, authors, and works
• Search for words with a particular part of speech
• Perform case-sensitive searches
• Restrict a search to a previous results set
• Compare revised entries with entries from the Second Edition to see how the language has changed and how new scholarship has increased understanding of our linguistic and cultural heritage.
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