The Oxford English Dictionary has revised the 'senses" of 285,403 words, from a total of 796,591 ‘senses’.   According to Graeme Diamond, OED's principle editor of "new words" (yup that's his title), "... sense means 'distinct meaning'.  For example the entry for 'muffin top' has two senses: the first one is obviously "the top of a muffin", […]

The publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford University Press , have said that the latest edition may not be printed. Yes, after more than twenty years of publication, e-dictionaries and reference websites have put paid to a British institution. A team of 80 lexicographers has been working on the third edition since 1989, with […]

Oxford University Press are publishing the world's largest thesaurus. It's taken them 40 years to compile the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which is published in two volumes, and is 4,500 pages long. It contains 800,000 meanings split into 236,000 categories and sub-categories. But don't worry, you don't have to memorise them all.