Collins English Dictionary

Collins English Dictionary: Collins English Dictionary 10th Ed. – 30th anniversary edition

The Collins English Dictionary is an important printed dictionary of English. It is published by HarperCollins.

The first edition of the Collins English Dictionary (1979) with Patrick Hanks as editor and Lawrence Urdang as editorial director, was a milestone in British dictionary making as it was the first to use the full power of computer databases and typesetting in the preparation of a dictionary. This meant that, for instance, subject editors could control separate definitions of the same word and the results could be blended into the result, rather than one editor being responsible for a word.

By the third edition, they increasingly used the Bank of English established by Hanks at COBUILD to provide typical definitions rather than examples composed by the lexicographer.

See also

Collins COBUILD Advanced Dictionary

External links

Collinslanguage.com – Internet front-end to dictionary content.

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