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- (also the OED) a very large historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press. It is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, well known for including many different meanings of words, and for giving real examples to show how each word was originally used and how its meaning has changed through time.
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The Historical Thesaurus of the OED is a semantic network of OED senses arranged by concept or meaning. It allows users to explore the different ways that meanings have been expressed in English over time, and to discover which synonyms were available for particular words in different periods.
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Historical dictionary. A historical dictionary or dictionary on historical principles is a dictionary which deals not only with the latterday meanings of words but also the historical development of their forms and meanings. It may also describe the vocabulary of an earlier stage of a language's development without covering present-day usage at ...
The Historical Thesaurus of English contains almost every recorded word in English from Old English to the present day, based on information in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and supplemented in particular by A Thesaurus of Old English (TOE, second edition 2000), which provided words from c700-1150 AD not included in the OED.
The Philological Society of London decided they needed a better dictionary — one that documented every single word in the English language — and appealed to the Oxford University Press to fund it.
The Historical Thesaurus of the OED (HTOED) is a fascinating resource for exploring the ways that concepts have been expressed in different periods, and for discovering which synonyms were available for particular words at different times. Here we give examples of some of the ways you might use HTOED.
Far more than a convenient place to look up words and their origins, the Oxford English Dictionary is an irreplaceable part of English culture. It not only provides an important record of the evolution of our language, but also documents the continuing development of our society.
The primary source of data for the first edition of the Historical Thesaurus was the second edition of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and its Additions series, incorporating the first edition and its supplements.
