Collins English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged 13th edition
TheCollins English Dictionary is a printed and onlinedictionary of English. It is published byHarperCollins inGlasgow.[1][2] It was first published in 1979.
The current edition is the 14th; it was published on 31 August 2023, with more than 732,000 words, meanings, and phrases (not 730,000 headwords) and 9,500 place names and 7,300 biographies.[4][non-primary source needed] A newer edition of the 14th edition was published 7 May 2024.[5]
The 1979 edition of the dictionary, withPatrick Hanks as editor andLaurence Urdang as editorial director, was the first British English dictionary to be typeset from the output from a computer database in a specified format. This meant that every aspect of an entry was handled by a different editor using different forms or templates. Once all the entries for an entry had been assembled, they were passed on to be keyed into the slowly assembled dictionary database which was completed for the typesetting of the first edition.[citation needed]
In a later edition, they increasingly used the Bank of English established byJohn McHardy Sinclair atCOBUILD to provide typical citations rather than examples composed by thelexicographer.
The unabridgedCollins English Dictionary was published on the web on 31 December 2011 on CollinsDictionary.com, along with the unabridged dictionaries of French, German, Spanish and Italian.[9] The site also includes example sentences showing word usage from the Collins Bank of English Corpus, word frequencies and trends from the GoogleNgrams project, and word images fromFlickr.
In August 2012, CollinsDictionary.com introduced crowd-sourcing forneologisms,[10][11][12] whilst still maintaining overall editorial control to remain distinct fromWiktionary andUrban Dictionary. This followed an earlier launch of a discussion forum for neologisms in 2004.[13]
In May 2015, CollinsDictionary.com added 6,500 newScrabble words to theirCollins Scrabble Words dictionary. The words are based on terms related to and influenced by slang, social media, food, technology, and more.[14][non-primary source needed]
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^Liberman, Mark (1989). "Text on Tap: the ACL/DCI".Speech and Natural Language: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, October 15-18, 1989. pp. 173–178.
