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Oxford English Dictionary
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There are over 231,000 main entries. Obsolete, spurious and non-naturalized words can be main entries. Each main entry contains the most common modern spelling of the word, the pronunciation, the part(s) of speech, the homonym number, the label (context), variant forms, and the etymology.
Use this database to answer questions like:
What is the meaning of the word morph? When was the word dumb first used? Is fait accompli a French phrase? What does it mean?
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The OED Online contains the complete text of the 20-volume Second Edition, first published in 1989, together with its 3-volume Additions Series, published in 1993 (volumes 1 and 2) and 1997 (volume 3) and the New Edition in progress.