Instant English

Characteristics of Oxford English Dictionary and Cobuild Dictionary Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principle historical dictionary of the English language published by Oxford University Press. The Oxford English Dictionary was first used unofficially on the covers of the series, and in 1928 the full dictionary was republished in ten bound volumes . The first electronic version of the dictionary was made available in 1988. The online version has been available since 2000, and by April 2014 was receiving over two million visits per month. The dictionary has a total vocabulary of 414,825 and citations of 1,827,306, and the total number of pages in 12 distribution volumes, which began to be called the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The pride of this dictionary is not in terms of vocabulary. There are often dictionaries that accommodate about 400,000 vocabulary words. It is the number of quotes that tell us the true value of this dictionary. The purpose of this dictionary is to