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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is the most comprehensive dictionary of the English language. It is not the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, formerly New Oxford Dictionary of English, of 1998.As of 30 November 2005, the OED included about 301,100 main entries, comprising more than 350 million printed characters. Additional to the headwords of main entries, it has 157,000 combinations and derivatives in bold type, and 169,000 phrases and combinations in bold italic type, a total of 616,500 word-forms. It has 137,000 pronunciations, 249,300 etymologies, 577,000 cross-references, and 2,412,400 illustrative quotations. The latest, complete printed edition of the dictionary (Second Edition, 1989) was 20 volumes, comprising 21,730 pages, with 291,500 entries.
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Noun
1. an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles
(synonym) Oxford English Dictionary, O.E.D.
(hypernym) unabridged dictionary



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