Oxford English Dictionary Online: Home

Oxford English Dictionary is known as the most authoritative and comprehensive English dictionary, which records the development of English language. OED explicitly records the development of over 600 thousand English vocabulary through over 3 million reference sources in the development of English language of over 1500 years.

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• More than 600,000 entries, illustrated by over 3.4 million quotations
• A factsheet for each entry containing high-level information such as the word's origin, frequency, and pronunciation
• All words related in meaning, via the Historical Thesaurus
• Suggested onward searches to direct them to results matching specific queries

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