OED • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of OED

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

Listen

OED

noun

An unabridged dictionary constructed on historical principles. Synonyms: O.E.D., Oxford English Dictionary.

See images of 'OED'

Etymology of 'OED'

Click any word on the page to get its definition

Text size: A A

Share |

"Oed" Quotes from Famous Books

... from other volumes of the Complete Works are quoted after the Notes. The "N.E.D." (New English Dictionary) is now known as the OED. ...

— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume V • Aphra Behn

Read full book for free!

... oikon oikourousin hoste parthenoi] (Soph. Oed. Col. 343).—'[Greek: Oikouros] est quasi proprium vocabulum mulierum: [Greek: oikourgos] est scribarum commentum,'—as Matthaei, whose note is worth reading, truly states. Wetstein's collections here should by ...

— The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels • John Burgon

Read full book for free!

... (to which the majority of critics assent), I have continued them to Prometheus. Dindorf (after Burges) remarks that the particles [Greek: ou deta] deceived the copyists, who thought that they pointed to the commencement of a new speaker's address. He quotes Soph. OEd. C. 433; Eur. Alcest. 555; Heracl. 507, sqq., where it is used as a continuation of a previous argument, as in ...

— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus

Read full book for free!