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oed[ noun ]
an unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles
<noun.communication>
- But this new edition achieves the compact ideal by compressing nine pages of the full OED onto a single 14-by-10-inch COED page.
- Ms. Berg, in the course of conceding that some entries in the current OED and COED lack modern quotations, reveals that "updating these entries will be one of the tasks of the third edition, ALREADY IN PROGRESS" (joyful emphasis mine).
- What's the betting that the Chatterjee use of suffix will get into the next edition of the OED? Examples of such stylistic affectation could be multiplied.
- You could pursue research queries like these two, but only by scanning all 415,000 words listed in the OED, which probably would leave you yabbering like a paddymelon.