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  2. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary now included 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering global English-speaking regions and 2500 new words and meanings from Oxford Dictionaries and Oxford English Corpus. As previously, the vocabulary included entries in general English from 1700 to the present day and in earlier major literary works.

  3. Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Dictionary. Langenscheidt dictionaries in various languages. A multi-volume Latin dictionary by Egidio Forcellini. Dictionary definition entries. A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by consonantal root for Semitic languages or radical and stroke for ...

  4. List 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. A Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia

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    A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. [2] It is among the most influential dictionaries in the history of the English language . There was dissatisfaction with the dictionaries of the period, so in June 1746 a group of London booksellers ...

  6. University of Oxford - Wikipedia

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    University of Oxford. /  51.75500°N 1.25500°W  / 51.75500; -1.25500. The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, [2] making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.

  7. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary

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    OUP website. The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary is a 2006 book by three editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner. It examines J. R. R. Tolkien 's brief period working as a lexicographer with the OED after World War I, traces his use of philology as it is apparent in ...

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