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An introductory guide to OED ONLINE. An introductory guide to OED ONLINE. Unrivalled breadth and depth. Includes definitions of over 600,000 words Usage illustrated by over 2.5 million quotations Provides a unique historical record of the development of English over the last millennium
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An introductory guide to OED ONLINE... An introductory guide to OED ONLINE...
Unrivalled breadth and depth • Includes definitions of over 600,000 words • Usage illustrated by over 2.5 million quotations • Provides a unique historical record of the development of English over the last millennium • Covers words and phrases from across the English-speaking world • Thebiggest dictionary of any language in the world - now online! www.oed.com
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An enormous project • The updating of the OED is the world’s largest humanities research project • Editorial work alone costs OUP £3 million per year! • 80 in-house lexicographers, researchers and systems engineers working on the project • 200 specialist advisers • Numerous external contributors • At least 1000 new and revised definitions published online each year www.oed.com
Type here to do a quick search for a word And then click here or press return nice
Click on a result to go to the definition Results from a Find Word search for “NICE”
Click here to see the entry without quotations The original meaning of NICE! Quotations from a wide range of sources illustrate meanings and show usage
How many senses of NICE are there? Click on Entry Map to find out. Scroll though the entry to see how much NICE has changed in meaning over time! As the OED is a historical dictionary, the oldest meaning of each wordappears first.
There are 20 different senses - use this list to navigate through the history of NICE The chronological coverage of the OED means that modern senses follow older meanings
Click on the Date Chart button to see at a glance when each sense was in common usage Click on the List by Date button to see which other words entered English in 1300, the same year as NICE
115 different types of phobia… including Anglophobia! Type *phobia to find all words ending in phobia Select the number of results displayed per page here Wildcards can be used in all search boxes… * represents any number of missing letters (including 0) ? represents 1 missing letter
62 results are found To find all 6 letter words starting MIN, simply type min???
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…and here’s the word! Here’s how to find the term for beer mat collectors! It’s always a good idea to use an * at the end of each word as the definition could describe the activity as collector, collecting etc. Know the meaning but not the word?
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