Paperback Oxford English Dictionary

• Author : Oxford Dictionaries,
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 10 May 2012

This fully updated edition offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English, containing over 2 billion words.The Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on topics including famous people, countries, and science. Includes 3 months' access to Oxford Dictionaries Pro at oxforddictionaries.com.

• Author : Sara Hawker
• Publisher : OXFORD
• Release : 26 March 2023

"This ninth edition of the Little Oxford English Dictionary includes: essential vocabulary for everyday use; clear and simple definitions now even easier to understand; spelling tips: spelling and grammar notes to help you get it right; and a new Factfinder section: kings and queens, countries, capitals, and more."--BOOK JACKET.

• Author : Oxford Oxford Languages
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 26 March 2023

Based on the Oxford English Corpus, this reference provides a up-to-date selection of 90,000 words, phrases, and definitions given in a clear, simple style, avoiding technical language.

• Author : Angus Stevenson
• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
• Release : 19 August 2010

The Oxford Dictionary of English offers authoritative and in-depth coverage of over 350,000 words, phrases, and meanings. The foremost single-volume authority on the English language.

• Author : Peter Gilliver
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 26 March 2023

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources--including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony--to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cultural background from which the idea of

• Author : Sarah Ogilvie
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 26 March 2023

Demonstrates that the Oxford English Dictionary is an international product in both its content and its making.

• Author : Catherine Soanes,Sara Hawker,Julia Elliott
• Publisher : OXFORD
• Release : 26 March 2023

The Pocket Oxford English Dictionary tenth edition is an updated and fully revised edition of the best-selling Pocket Oxford English Dictionary ninth edition, containing over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions, with definitions even clearer than before. For the new edition there is lots of help with those aspects of the language (such as spelling, pronunciation, and usage) which cause most difficulties. In particular, there are hundreds of new spelling notes to help with tricky words that are commonly misspelled, extra usage

• Author : Angus Stevenson,Maurice Waite
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 18 August 2011

Offers definitions for English words and phrases, along with observations about the evolution of the dictionary since its first edition and tables that contain information for such topics as countries and chemical elements.

• Author : Simon Winchester
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 26 March 2023

"First edition published 2003. First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback 2004. New edition 2018"--Title page verso.

• Author : Oxford Dictionaries,
• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• Release : 18 August 2011

This centenary edition of the world-famous Concise Oxford English Dictionary presents the most accurate picture of English today.

• Author : J. A. Simpson,E. S. C. Weiner
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 March 1989

Provides definitions of approximately 290,500 English words, arranged alphabetically in twenty volumes, with cross-references, etymologies, and pronunciation keys, and includes a bibliography.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 26 March 2023

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 January 2005

The Oxford English Dictionary is the internationally recognized authority on the evolution of the English language from 1150 to the present day. The Dictionary defines over 500,000 words and traces their usage through 2.5 million illustrative quotations from a wide range of literary and other sources. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, pronunciation, and history of the English language. This new version of the Oxford English Dictionary (Second Edition) on CD-ROM offers unparalleled access to the world's most important reference work

• Author : Peter Gilliver,Jeremy Marshall,Edmund Weiner
• Publisher : Oxford University Press
• Release : 23 July 2009

Three senior editors at the Oxford English Dictionary examine Tolkien's career as a lexicographer who spent two years on the staff of the OED, analyze its influence on his creative use of language in his fictional works, and probe the origins and meaning of such Tolkienesque words as "hobbit," "Ent," and "mithril."

• Author : Oxford Dictionaries,
• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• Release : 03 May 2012

The Oxford English Dictionary for Schools is carefully targeted to support secondary school students with their independent reference skills, to improve their spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and to build vocabulary. Ideal support for Controlled Assessments.