Example sentences for: oed

How can you use “oed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • ..' ” For those who have not remained awake during class, I must repeat the fact that when a dictionary, whether it be the OED, Dictionary of American Slang (the source of this citation), or any other work uses quotations it simply lists the quotation as the earliest printed evidence found of the use of a word: that does NOT mean that the author of the cited work made up the word.

  • ,” meaning, obviously that there is some possibility of that derivation; the OED etymology is “Origin unknown.”

  • But a chair is virtually anything for an individual to sit on and cap, etymologically at least, originally meant cape (with a hood) or so the OED has it.

  • In the following paragraphs, the year of first recorded use given in the OED is indicated in parentheses.

  • Cognitive and intellectual are synonyms for the faculty of knowing ( OED ): use of both words is redundant.


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