![]() A copy of the First Edition of NODE | |
Language | English |
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Release number | 3 |
Genre | Dictionary |
Published | 1 August 2010 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 2112 |
ISBN | 978-0199571123 |
Preceded by | Second Edition |
The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003.[1] The dictionary is not based on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) – it is a separate dictionary which strives to represent faithfully the current usage of English words. The Revised Second Edition contains 355,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including biographical references and thousands of encyclopaedic entries. The Third Edition was published in August 2010, with some new words, including "vuvuzela".
It is currently the largest single-volume English-language dictionary published by Oxford University Press, but is much smaller than the comprehensive Oxford English Dictionary, which is published in multiple volumes.