The Third Edition offers a thoroughly updated text, with revisions throughout and approximately 2, new words, phrases, and meanings. Many new words relate to fast-moving areas such as computing, technology, current affairs, and ecology, while others have recently entered the popular lexicon.
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Oxford Reference. Publications Pages Publications Pages. Recently viewed 0 Save Search. New Oxford American Dictionary 3 ed. Edited by: Angus Stevenson and Christine A. Authors Angus Stevenson, editor Christine A. Lindberg, editor. The prefaces to the previous editions of the OED , and a list of staff and contributors to each edition , can be explored in the following sections:. Many parts and sections were issued with Prefaces—or, in some cases, short prefatory notes—written by the relevant Editor; in addition, when a volume, or a half-volume, or a particular letter was completed, a separate Preface might be produced for it.
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Publication date: in fascicles. Published in 10 volumes in and reissued in 12 volumes in , with addition of one-volume Supplement. Price of bound volumes : from 50 to 55 guineas for the set, depending on binding. The Second Edition of the Dictionary, published in , was an amalgamation of the text of the First Edition with that of the Supplement produced in —86, combined with approximately five thousand entries for new words and meanings.
Number of different typographical characters used in text: approx. Most frequently quoted work in various full and partial version, and translations : Bible est. Most frequently quoted single work of Shakespeare: Hamlet almost 1, quotations.
Percentage of quotations by centuries: 20th century 20 per cent 19th century 31 18th century 11 17th century 16 16th century 10 15th century 4. After publication of the Second Edition, further entries for new words and meanings continued to be compiled, with the intention that they should eventually be included in the Third Edition of the Dictionary.
Volumes 1 and 2 of the Series appeared in , and Volume 3 in The series was then discontinued in favour of online publication of both new and revised entries , which began in A one-volume Supplement to the Dictionary was issued in In work began on a revised and expanded version of this Supplement, which eventually appeared in four volumes in — Work on the Third Edition began in the new millennium when the dictionary moved online, and is an ongoing project.
Updates adding hundreds of new and revised words are published quarterly. The online Dictionary contains the complete A to Z sequence of the Second Edition, its three-volume Additions Series, and also draft material from the revision programme, which represents the latest progress towards the Third Edition.
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