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Concise Oxford English Dictionary Luxury Edition
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary is one of the most popular choices in Oxford's renowned dictionary line.
This Luxury Edition is perfect for anyone looking to invest in a reliable resource for home, school, or office. It includes unique features such as cut thumb tabs, printed endpapers, ribbon marker, with coloured head and tailbands making it a centerpiece for all bookshelves.
This centenary edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary Luxury Edition presents the most accurate picture of English today. It contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, providing superb coverage of contemporary English, including rare, historical, and archaic terms, scientific
and technical vocabulary, and English from around the world. The dictionary has been updated with hundreds of new words--including sub-prime, social networking, and carbon footprint--all based on the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus. In addition, the dictionary features an engaging new
center section, with quick-reference word lists (containing, for example, lists of Fascinating Words and Onomatopoeic Words), and a revised and updated English Uncovered supplement, which examines interesting facts about the English language. Sprinkled throughout the text are intriguing Word
Histories, detailing the origins and development of numerous words. The volume also retains such popular features as the hundreds of usage notes which give advice on tricky vocabulary and pointers to help you improve your use of English. Finally, the dictionary contains full appendices on topics
such as alphabets, currencies, electronic English, and the registers of language (from formal to slang), plus a useful Guide to Good English with advice on grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
This Luxury Edition also includes 12 months' of access to Oxford Dictionaries Online at oxforddictionaries.com.
This Luxury Edition is perfect for anyone looking to invest in a reliable resource for home, school, or office. It includes unique features such as cut thumb tabs, printed endpapers, ribbon marker, with coloured head and tailbands making it a centerpiece for all bookshelves.
This centenary edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary Luxury Edition presents the most accurate picture of English today. It contains over 240,000 words, phrases, and definitions, providing superb coverage of contemporary English, including rare, historical, and archaic terms, scientific
and technical vocabulary, and English from around the world. The dictionary has been updated with hundreds of new words--including sub-prime, social networking, and carbon footprint--all based on the latest research from the Oxford English Corpus. In addition, the dictionary features an engaging new
center section, with quick-reference word lists (containing, for example, lists of Fascinating Words and Onomatopoeic Words), and a revised and updated English Uncovered supplement, which examines interesting facts about the English language. Sprinkled throughout the text are intriguing Word
Histories, detailing the origins and development of numerous words. The volume also retains such popular features as the hundreds of usage notes which give advice on tricky vocabulary and pointers to help you improve your use of English. Finally, the dictionary contains full appendices on topics
such as alphabets, currencies, electronic English, and the registers of language (from formal to slang), plus a useful Guide to Good English with advice on grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
This Luxury Edition also includes 12 months' of access to Oxford Dictionaries Online at oxforddictionaries.com.
1728 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1911
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August 25, 2022
Naturally I have not read this cover to cover, but like with a few other reference books I have, I wanted to mark it down.
I ordered this because I missed being able to look up a word and then snoop around for other words that were on the same page as my word.
The online dictionary I use is great, but I miss the way a print dictionary looks and feels. My edition arrived in today's mail, and I will be keeping it close for lots of exploring!
I ordered this because I missed being able to look up a word and then snoop around for other words that were on the same page as my word.
The online dictionary I use is great, but I miss the way a print dictionary looks and feels. My edition arrived in today's mail, and I will be keeping it close for lots of exploring!
August 24, 2012
A bit of a disjointed and wordy story about an Aardvark who goes through many, many random adventures as he searches for a xylophone that he can take to his friend the zebra at a zoo.
December 6, 2014
I suppose through habit and school, this is my dictionary of first resort - I do own four others including the Shorter Oxford. It is accessible, sensible in its definitions and in the main authoritative.
September 11, 2007
i guess i'll never be able to summarize this book.
February 13, 2018
Brilliant! One word comes after the other, just like you'd want it to!
January 21, 2009
Can't beat it for an up-to-date dictionary at a decent price.
"Turns out the zebra did it."
"Turns out the zebra did it."
December 12, 2023
This was a very good dictionary. It was simpler than the regular Oxford dictionary, rarely using words that I had to define in the definitions of other words. This edition is from 2009, but that didn’t make it outdated, since this dictionary contained useful modern terminology about things like computers, while leaving out hateful neologisms like “twerk”. Additionally, this dictionary also contained whimsies like a history of the Oxford dictionary, a list of collective nouns, and another list of words and phrases of foreign origin. Like all dictionaries, I haven’t read the whole thing, but what I have read is superb.
February 28, 2017
I picked up my first copy in Europe and by their standards, there is no other!
January 20, 2019
MB - NL
October 8, 2023
Excellent Book
September 21, 2026
I unironically read this cover-to-cover. Why don't people do this more often? It's literally the dictionary!
September 16, 2016
Mine copy didn't have the CD with it, but in every other way this is the edition I have.
I use this one most, and like the clear, concise, meanings in plain English.
But I also have the Shorter Oxford dictionary as well if I wish to look deeper for shades of meaning, perhaps in older texts where the meaning may have changed over time. That version does have a CD-Rom, which is brilliant too, especially as it provides pronunciation. It is here I go browsing words
And yes I have another as well, but this one sits on my beside table with books I'm currently reading and I tend to pick it up in case I need to look up something, so is in frequent use.
I use this one most, and like the clear, concise, meanings in plain English.
But I also have the Shorter Oxford dictionary as well if I wish to look deeper for shades of meaning, perhaps in older texts where the meaning may have changed over time. That version does have a CD-Rom, which is brilliant too, especially as it provides pronunciation. It is here I go browsing words
And yes I have another as well, but this one sits on my beside table with books I'm currently reading and I tend to pick it up in case I need to look up something, so is in frequent use.
January 7, 2009
My son gave me this dictionary for Christmas to replace the awful one we have been using the past nine or ten years. Word origins and phrases are included, which is exactly what I wanted. Recently I looked up the word "plashy" as it was used in a poem, and while the old dictionary did not contain this word, the new Oxford dictionary did. Additionally, the Oxford dictionary has interesting appendices such as Prime Ministers and Presidents. Out with the old dictionary and in with the new!
December 14, 2023
This special edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary was made for that dictionary’s one hundredth anniversary. Fittingly, there were special additions made, such as an explanation of the dictionary’s history, and some boxes underneath words that show how the word meaning has changed in a century. The vocabulary was updated for 2011, but this dictionary is still as accurate as ever.
August 24, 2007
Good desk reference.
September 9, 2007
The best part about the Oxford is that it shows the pronunciation phonetically, instead of using those stupid symbols, the name of which has escaped me since undergrad English.
December 13, 2007
Lots of words... explained.
June 4, 2008
my new years resolution will be to read the dictionary the whole way through!
February 15, 2009
Always near me and always teaching me. Best book ever.
September 26, 2010
Best Eng. dictionary ever! I have a very old copy of it, and use it frequently.
July 27, 2011
Before Auto-Correct, this book saved my life.
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May 1, 2017Hardcover
March 7, 2008
Sometimes, I just like to read words. That's all. Words and what they mean. Am I weird?
February 27, 2013
This one's a must for the writer who expects to market internationally.
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February 24, 2018In it's tenth edition, the world's most popular dictionary has undergone a most thorough revision. More than 200,000 clear, concise entries define a vast array of ideas and words with highlighted usage notes and maps.
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