OUP E-books Oxford English Dictionary Online

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Content
The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

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  • Find a term when you know the meaning but have forgotten the word
  • Find words that have come into English via a particular language
  • Search for quotations from a specified year
  • Search for all quotations from a particular author and/or work
  • Display entries according to your needs - for the first time you can turn pronunciation, etymologies, variant spellings, and quotations on and off
  • Gain unique online access to at least 1,000 new and revised words each quarter
  • Compare revised entries with entries from the Second Edition to see how language has changed and how new scholarship has increased understanding of our linguistic and cultural heritage

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