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<p>For the past sixty-five years, the massive Oxford English Dictionary has offered the last word on the English language. Now, Oxford University Press is pleased to announce a landmark new dictionary—The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary—that brings the authority of the Oxford Dictionary Department and the vast scholarship of the OED itself within the reach of individuals.<br> This completely new dictionary covers virtually every word or phrase in use in English—worldwide—since 1700. Not strictly an abridgment of the OED, the New Shorter draws on the OED's ongoing revision as well as its own independent research program. Each entry provides all the information you would expect from a leading unabridged dictionary: it identifies each word's various meanings, origins, part of speech, pronunciation (in the International Phonetic Alphabet), and combinations in which the word is often found, as well as cross-references to related words. The New Shorter, however, offers something that no competitor can match: the historical, literary approach made justly famous by the OED. Thousands upon thousands of changing meanings are followed through history, illustrated by more than 83,000 qu

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Author

Lesley Brown

Publisher

Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press

Published

1973

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198611349

Category

reference

Subjects

Language Learning, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.68 / 5 (22 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14