Concise Oxford Dictionary

The Concise Oxford Dictionary has insight as an instance of understanding hidden truths.

How 10 classics got their titles 2009

My edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines 'intellect' as 'faculty of knowing and reasoning; understanding'.

Miss Snark reviews my synopsis Carla 2006

My edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines 'intellect' as 'faculty of knowing and reasoning; understanding'.

Archive 2006-01-01 Carla 2006

My edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary offers the following two definitions that could apply to modern fiction:

Archive 2006-09-01 Carla 2006

My edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary offers the following two definitions that could apply to modern fiction:

Historical fiction and romance Carla 2006

I don't have a complete OED here, but both the Concise Oxford Dictionary (tenth edition, 1999) and the New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) give /'s@Uld@, 'sQld@/.

languagehat.com: SOLDER. 2004

So have all your fun while you still can. what fairy tale ...is not in my Concise Oxford Dictionary, but it sounds like the way I am feeling...

April 7th, 2004 mynxii 2004

The Concise Oxford Dictionary and Cassell, following the late J.H. Trumbull, the well-known authority on Indian languages, derive the word from the Algonquin cau-cau-as-u or kaw-kaw-asu, one who advises.

Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 1. Americanisms in England Henry Louis 1921

” But in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, dated 1914, and in Cassell’s New English Dictionary, published five years later, it is given as a sound English word, though its American origin is noted.

Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 1. Americanisms in England Henry Louis 1921

All four words are in the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and only lengthy is noted as “originally an Americanism.

Chapter 5. International Exchanges. 1. Americanisms in England Henry Louis 1921