Second edition
Edited by Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson
355,000 words, phrases, and definitions
This is a revised edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English. First published in 1998, this dictionary has established itself as the foremost single-volume authority on the English language. Using new and original methods, it presents words according to their use and frequency based on the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, an unrivalled collection of millions of words of modern English.
'A model of clarity - hardly surprising given its illustrious pedigree' Time Out (review of the previous edition)
ISBN: 0198610572
Publishing history: First published 1998. Reissued 2001. Second edition 2003. Revised second edition 2005.
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