Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th Edition

Additional Details

• Title: Concise Oxford English Dictionary, Eleventh Edition
• Edited by Catherine Soanes and Angus Stevenson
• Oxford University Press, October 2004
• 1,728 pages

Features

• Major new edition providing an authoritative, up-to-the-minute description of the English language
• Based on hundreds of millions of words of real English from the Oxford English Corpus
• Over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including 900 new words
• NEW! Word Histories feature telling the often bizarre stories of the origins and development of 100s of words, such as accolade and candid
• NEW! Hundreds of extra notes on grammar and usage covering a wide range of topics, from confusable words (what's the difference between peddle and pedal?) to punctuation (where should a hyphen be used?)
• Rich vocabulary coverage including scientific, technical, World English, rare, historical, and archaic terms
• Appendices containing lists of alphabets, currencies, chemical elements, electronic English, and more

Benefits of the Logos Bible Software Edition

The electronic edition from Logos is, of course, fully searchable. More importantly, you can specify the Concise OED as the primary KeyLink destination for English, meaning that when you double-click on any English word in any resource in your library Libronix DLS will try to find a match in Concise OED!

As with all Logos Bible Software resources, you can copy and paste from the dictionary to your word processer, email, or other application. When you paste the text, a fully-formatted footnote is included...helping you work more efficiently with a minimum of wasted time and tedium.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction
• Guide to the Use of the dictionary
• Abbreviations used in the dictionary
• Note on trademarks and proprietary status
• Concise Oxford English Dictionary
• Appendix 1: Countries of the World
• Appendix 2: Prime Ministers and Presidents
• Appendix 3: Kings and Queens of England and the United Kingdom
• Appendix 4: Weights, Measures, and Notation
• Appendix 5: Chemical Elements
• Appendix 6: The Greek Alphabet
• Appendix 7: The Solar System
• Appendix 8: Collective Nouns
• Appendix 9: Types of Language
• Appendix 10: English in Electronic Communication
• Appendix 11: Guide to Good English

Sample Pages from the Print Edition

A PDF with sample pages is available from the Oxford University Press website.