Shorter Oxford English Dictionary by Oxford Languages

Description: About this productProduct InformationNow updated with more than 3,000 new words and meanings, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary manages more than one third of the coverage of the OED in one-tenth the size. More than 500,000 definitions grace its 3,984 pages, and its innovative, open design makes this vast amount of information easily navigable and identifiable. The Shorter covers virtually every word or phrase in use in English--worldwide--since 1700. Drawing on the continuous research for The Oxford English Dictionary, each definition's changing meanings are followed throughout history and are illustrated by more than 83,000 quotations from some 7,000 authors. The world's most comprehensive, thorough, and up-to-date unabridged dictionary, the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is an essential resource for every library.Product IdentifiersPublisherOxford University Press, IncorporatedISBN-100198604572ISBN-139780198604570eBay Product ID (ePID)2326121Product Key FeaturesAuthorAngus Stevenson, William R. TrumbleFormatHardcoverLanguageEnglishPublication Year2002Number of Pages3793 PagesDimensionsItem Length11in.Item Height5.4in.Item Width8.5in.Item Weight218.7 OzAdditional Product FeaturesNumber of Volumes2 Vols.Lc Classification NumberPe1625.S47 2002Edition DescriptionRevised EditionEdition Number5Reviews'. . . astonishingly good value . . . the new SOED is all that one would expect of it.'Keith Waterhouse, Daily Mail, 'Review from previous edition If you have bookshelves, shed them of theuseless and find room for this . . .. This verbal nourishment is overwhelming.'Anthony Burgess, Observer, 'The Shorter demands a shelf, but one very close to the desk of anyone whocares about words.'Daily Telegraph, 'Review from previous edition If you have bookshelves, shed them of the useless and find room for this . . .. This verbal nourishment is overwhelming.'Anthony Burgess, Observer, 'The Shorter demands a shelf, but one very close to the desk of anyone who cares about words.'Daily Telegraph, "The Shorter is the Matterhorn to the great OED's Everest--elegant, awesome and marvelous to behold, differing only in size. A stupendous achievement."--Simon Winchester (author of The Professor and the Madman) "The page design is clean and remarkably easy to read."--Publishers Weekly "The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary redefines hip."--The New York Post "Even at a fraction of its original bulk, the premier collection of English words manages to squeeze in over a third of the original's content, including its hallmark: minute etymological details."--US News & World Reports "In dictionary terms, the publication of The New Shorter OED is among the major events of the last half century."--Chicago TribuneTable of ContentList of lexicographersPrefaceGuide to the use of the DictionaryTransliterationAbbreviations and symbolsKey to the PronunciationThe Dictionary A-M volume 1The Dictionary N-Z volume 2Authors and publications quotedReferences to the BibleReferences to ShakespeareCopyright Date2002Target AudienceTradeTopicDictionaries, GeneralLccn2002-070244Dewey Decimal423Dewey Edition21IllustratedYesGenreRéférence

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