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Oxford English Dictionary Online

The Oxford English Dictionary is widely acknowledged to be the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world. It is also the definitive record of English language development, tracing the evolution of more than 600,000 words over the last 1,500 years through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of sources.

Oxford English Dictionary Online
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OED Online offers:

  • Unprecedented access to the 20-volume Second Edition and 3 Additions series volumes


  • Quarterly updates comprising at least 2,500 new and revised words


  • Extensive search options – everything from simple word and proximity searching to Boolean and phonetic searching across one or more fields in the Dictionary.


  • Expanded coverage of world English, and terminology from specialist areas such as the arts, science, medicine, history, and the social sciences.

Reviews

‘[OED Online is] an essential acquisition for all libraries. The range of possibilities and enhanced value over the print is astonishing.’
Library Journal

‘A much-needed new-media setting for appreciating the richness and history of the English language.’
Wall Street Journal

‘The OED will instantly become the internet's biggest, most prestige-laden reference book... The site is elegant, image-free and lucidly signposted with a range of handsome fonts.’
The Guardian

‘Quick to access and easy to use... A browser's paradise.’
The Times

‘For anyone who loves to fossick through the pages of a great dictionary, the OED Online is a remarkable experience.’
The Observer

OED Online is an absolutely essential tool, heavily and widely used across the university.’
Patricia Killiard, Head of Electronic Services and Systems, Cambridge University

‘An essential resource.’
Kate Price, E-Strategy & Resources Manager, University of Surrey

‘A very popular and well used resource.’
Russell Burke, Electronic Resources Co-ordinator, King's College London


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