Discover the story of English
More than 600,000 words, over a thousand years
Welcome to OED Online. If you or your library subscribes, dive straight in to the riches of the English language. If not, click on the images below to learn more about the OED, see What's new, or take a look at Aspects of English, our language feature section.
Get your annual subscription for just £100/$100!
September 2021 update
Our latest update: over 1,650 new words, sub-entries, and revisions have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in our latest update, including anti-vaxxer, Dutch baby, and bants.
New words notes: learn more about the words added to the OED this quarter in our new word notes by OED Executive Editor, Jonathan Dent.
Revision notes: read all about our revision of witch in our blog post by OED Senior Editor, Matthew Bladen
Release notes: find out more about the latest updates to the Historical Thesaurus of the OED in this post by OED Executive Editor, Kate Wild.
Release notes: learn about the latest words of Korean origin to be added to the OED in these release notes by OED World English Editor, Danica Salazar.
Release notes: read more about Caribbean English in the OED in this blog post, also by Danica Salazar.