The most prestigious, most authoritative dictionary in the English language, the Oxford English Dictionary or more commonly referred to as OED, defines and traces the history of over 500,000 words from across the English-speaking world. This online database contains over 2.5 million quotations illustrating modern and historical uses of words, some dating back to the Middle Ages.
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