OED online
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Subjects: English language; Dictionaries
Other titles: OED2; Oxford English dictionary online
Description: The most complete historical record of the English language: the largest dictionary of the English language, containing 615,000 word forms with 139,900 pronunciations, 219,000 etymologies, and 2,436,600 quotations.
Notes: Title from title screen (viewed Nov. 12, 2003).

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Also available in print and CD-ROM eds.: Oxford English dictionary, 2nd ed.; Oxford English dictionary addition series.

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