Tag archives: Oxford Dictionaries

March Madness: The Final Four

While the British and American heads of state were busy fine-tuning their own March Madness bracket picks over dinner last week, the Oxford Dictionaries Bracket Challenge has already hit its stride. How did your favorite sports expressions do? The gloves are off In the closest match-up yet, the venerable saved by the bell proved to [...]

Posted on: March 19 2012 | Comments: 0 | Categories: Competitions and quizzes | Tags: baseball, brackets, challenge, golf, interactive, Oxford Dictionaries, poll, sporting expressions

Cyberchondriac, LARP, and scratchiti: ODO quarterly update February 2012

Are you a schwag-grabbing, scratchiti-daubing, shootie-wearing, smart home-owning, social gaming addict keen on sleep hygiene who lives in the slurbs? Then you may be interested in the new words added to our free online dictionary. And even if you’re none of these things, our latest update to Oxford Dictionaries Online includes oodles of other new [...]

Posted on: February 27 2012 | Comments: 5 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography, Word trends and new words | Tags: cyberchondriac, gamification, LARP, new words, Oxford Dictionaries, quarterly update

Oxford Dictionaries Online – site guide

Welcome to Oxford’s free website, Oxford Dictionaries Online.

Oxford’s exciting modern English dictionary and language service has so much to offer, whether you’re seeking authoritative definitions at a click, practical advice on improving your English, answers for all your language FAQs, or help with solving tricky anagrams.

Posted on: May 12 2010 | Comments: 0 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography | Tags: dictionary guide, English usage, Oxford Dictionaries