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      • These dictionaries generally contain fewer entries than full-size or collegiate dictionaries but contain additional information that would be useful to a learner of English, such as more extensive usage notes, example sentences or phrases, collocations, and both British and American pronunciations (sometimes multiple variants of the latter).
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  2. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated COD or COED) is one of the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford dictionaries. The latest edition contains over 240,000 entries and 1,728 pages ("concise" compared to the OED at over 21,000 pages).

    • Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford Languages
    • 2011
  3. This is a comparison of English dictionaries, which are dictionaries about the language of English. The dictionaries listed here are categorized into "full-size" dictionaries (which extensively cover the language, and are targeted to native speakers), "collegiate" (which are smaller, and often contain other biographical or geographical ...

    Title
    Publisher
    First Published
    Latest Edition
    1969
    5th (ISBN 0-547-04101-2)
    1998
    2nd (ISBN 978-0-19-541816-3)
    1872
    13th (ISBN 9781473602250)
    1979
    14th (ISBN 978-0008511340)
  4. The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is a comprehensive and authoritative resource for English language definitions and usage.

  5. The historical English dictionary. An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world. Find out more about OED.

  6. It's the kind of dictionary that lives on your shelf and is a real pain to use. The Concise OED is a more user-friendly size (1728 pages, 24 cm x 16.4 cm x 5.6 cm, 1.57 kg) but its definitions are much more bare-bones. The entries are very short and don't have example sentences.

  7. How-to guide for English Dictionary at OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com. Hints and tips on how to use the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary free online service. Get answers to your frequently-asked questions.

  8. Apr 2, 2018 · The Concise Oxford English Dictionary gives word definitions and spellings in British English. While I can find no explicit source for this, I infer this from the fact that Oxford University Press also publishes the Concise Oxford American Dictionary, which gives word definitions in American English, thereby implying the Concise OED gives the ...