Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary: With Additional Material from a Thesaurus of Old English – Christian Kay (Edited by), Jane Roberts (Edited by), Michael Samuels (Edited by), Irene Wotherspoon (Edited by)

The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is the largest thesaurus in the world, conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow. It is a complete database of all the words in the second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, arranged by semantic field and date

A 40-year project in the making, The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is the first historical thesaurus to include almost the entire vocabulary of English, from Old English to the present day. Conceived and compiled by the English Language Department of the University of Glasgow, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is a groundbreaking analysis of the historical inventory of English, allowing users to find words connected in meaning throughout the history of the language.

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• The largest thesaurus resource in the world, covering more than 920,000 words and meanings, based on the Oxford English Dictionary
• The very first historical thesaurus to be compiled for any of the world’s languages
• Synonyms listed with dates of first recorded use in English, in chronological order, with earliest synonyms first
• For obsolete words, the Thesaurus also includes last recorded use of word
• Uses a specially devised thematic system of classification
• Comprehensive index enables complete cross-referencing of nearly one million words and meanings
• Contains a comprehensive sense inventory of Old English
• Includes a free fold-out color chart which shows the top levels of the classification structure
• Made up of two volumes: The main text, comprising numbers sections for semantic categories, and the index, comprising a full A-Z look up of nearly one million lexical items

The Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary is a unique resource for word-lovers of all types-linguists and language specialists, historians, literary commentators, among others-as well as being a fascinating resource for everyone with an interest in the English language and its historical development. It is a perfect complement to the OED itself, allowing the words in the OED to be cross-referenced and viewed in wholly new ways.

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