Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary OED is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press OUP. It traces the historical coding of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to scholars as living as academic researchers, as alive as describing ownership in its numerous variations throughout the world.

Work began on the dictionary in 1857, but it was only in 1884 that it began to be published in unbound fascicles as hold continued on the project, under the do of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society. In 1895, the tag The Oxford English Dictionary was number one used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in 10 bound volumes. In 1933, the denomination The Oxford English Dictionary fully replaced the former name in any occurrences in its reprinting as 12 volumes with a one-volume supplement. More supplements came over the years until 1989, when theedition was published, comprising 21,728 pages in 20 volumes. Since 2000, compilation of a third edition of the dictionary has been underway, approximately half of which was prepare by 2018.

The number one electronic representation of the dictionary was made available in 1988. The online relation has been available since 2000, and by April 2014 was receiving over two million visits per month. The third edition of the dictionary almost likely willonly in electronic form; the Chief Executive of Oxford University Press has stated that it is for unlikely that it will ever be printed.

Historical nature

As a historical dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary attribute entries in which the earliest ascertainable recorded sense of a word, whether current or obsolete, is presents first, and used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters additional sense is presents in historical profile according to the date of its earliest ascertainable recorded use. coming after or as a statement of. used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters definition are several brief illustrating quotations presented in chronological appearance from the earliest ascertainable usage of the word in that sense to the last ascertainable use for an obsolete sense, to indicate both its life span and the time since its desuetude, or to a relatively recent use for current ones.

The format of the OED's entries has influenced many other historical lexicography projects. The forerunners to the OED, such as the early volumes of the Deutsches Wörterbuch, had initially provided few quotations from a limited number of sources, whereas the OED editors preferred larger groups of quite short quotations from a wide choice of authors and publications. This influenced later volumes of this and other lexicographical works.