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| shapd Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5958 days ago 126 posts - 208 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French, Russian | Message 17 of 27 20 February 2008 at 3:48am | IP Logged | ||
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My son works for the Oxford English Dictionary as an editor. They are completely rewriting it for the first time, which will take years. He tells me it is most unlikely that there will ever be another printed edition, because it will just be too big and expensive. It will be on line or on CD. In the meantime updates will be issued as sections are finished. One is due very soon now. By the way, the reason it is so big is that it is designed as a record of the entire language, including all obsolete words from the past thousand years. It should be used with extreme caution by non-native speakers. Fascinating to dip into though.
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| null Groupie China Joined 5934 days ago 76 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 18 of 27 26 February 2008 at 7:40am | IP Logged | ||
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sorry,i've just updated my first post
Baidu Baike is NOT the Largest Chinese online encyclopedia Hoodong Baike is the LARGEST with 2,336,820 entries(Feb 18,2008) http://www.hoodong.com/ 
http://www.hoodong.com/ Baidu Baike is 'probably' the second Largest with 1,046,936 entires(Feb 26,2008) 
http://baike.baidu.com/ I have to correct this mistake. Edited by null on 26 February 2008 at 7:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| null Groupie China Joined 5934 days ago 76 posts - 82 votes Speaks: Mandarin* | Message 19 of 27 11 April 2009 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
I've just checked it on wikipedia, the OED2 (as of 30 November 2005) contained approximately 301,100 main entries. Supplementing the entry headwords, there are 157,000 bold-type combinations and derivatives; 169,000 italicized-bold phrases and combinations; 616,500 word-forms in total, including 137,000 pronunciations; 249,300 etymologies; 577,000 cross-references; and 2,412,400 usage quotations. I guess now it's not safe to say the OED is the LARGEST (in terms of # of entries) dictionary in the world. Webster’s New International Dictionary (second edition) has over 600,000 entries, including many proper names and newly added lists of undefined “combination words”. Edited by null on 11 April 2009 at 2:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Paramecium Tetraglot Groupie Germany Joined 5521 days ago 46 posts - 59 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Russian Studies: Japanese | Message 20 of 27 11 April 2009 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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The biggest German dictionary is: "Deutsches Wörterbuch" of the brothers Grimm. It contains 33 volumes (all in all 84kg paper) and 350.000 main entries on more than 33.000 pages. For every word is given the meaning and etymology.
The standart dictionary which is used here in Germany is the DUDEN with 150.000 main entries and 500.000 examples for using the words. Edited by Paramecium on 11 April 2009 at 3:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6169 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 21 of 27 11 April 2009 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Le Grand Robert is the biggest for french as far as I know... 13420 pages over six volumes, 80000 words and 250000 quotes and examples of the words in use... I have an electronic copy... I use it when babylon fails and or when I need more examples of context. Edited by blindsheep on 11 April 2009 at 6:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Romullo Newbie Brazil Joined 5856 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Studies: English | Message 22 of 27 11 April 2009 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
Houaiss, biggest Portugese dictionary
website http://www.dicionariohouaiss.com.br/index2.asp 228.500 main entries and ~900.000 other word types such as sinonyms, arcaisms etc 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5843 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 23 of 27 11 April 2009 at 8:30pm | IP Logged | ||
The biggest monolingual Bulgarian dictionary I'm aware of contains 60 000 words. My parents have it back home. However, I'm not sure this is the biggest in existence. It's probably the biggest "mainstream" dictionary.
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| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6256 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 24 of 27 13 April 2009 at 4:34am | IP Logged | ||
Uh, from Wikipedia Woordenboek der Nederlandsche Taal (English: "Dictionary of the Dutch language") is a dictionary of the Dutch language and the largest dictionary in the world in print. It has over 430,000 entries of Dutch words from 1500 to 1921 and the paper edition consists of 43 volumes and close to 50,000 pages. The dictionary was almost 150 years in the making: the first fascicle (A-Aanhaling) was published in 1863 and the last (Zuid-Zythum) in 1998. Three supplements to the original dictionary text containing modern-day Dutch words were published in 2001. The dictionary can currently be purchased only in an electronic form. The Van Dale Groot Woordenboek der Nederlandse Taal is in three volumes 1864-2005. Also called the "Fat Van Dale". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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