We use cookies to enhance your experience on our website. This website uses cookies that provide targeted advertising and which track your use of this website. By clicking ‘continue’ or by continuing to use our website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.ContinueFind out more
Oxford word of the year question marks banner hero

The Oxford Word of the Year 2018 is...

Maudlin header 151x90

FIND OUT MORE

Blue Monday and the mawkish misnomer of ‘maudlin’

1940s post card blog header

READ MORE

Words from the 1940s

Saxophone eponymous 151x90

FIND OUT MORE

Eponymous instrument makers: from Sax to Stradivari

Trending Words

Most popular in the world

  1. Guy Fawkes Night
  2. spine-bash
  3. Leiden
  4. blindingly
  5. tamburitza

Word of the Day

Get word of the day by email

Click here to see our Privacy Policy.

Thanks for subscribing. Please check your email and confirm your subscription

Popular posts

Tolkien 315x190

OED BLOG

Old English and Tolkien

In 315x190

BLOG

Into or in to

Disney 315x190

BLOG

A little bit of pixie dust: five of Disney’s contributions to the English language

Suffragettes feature image 315x190

BLOG

Woman or Suffragette?

Apostrophes1 315x190

OED BLOG

Do we need the apostrophe?

Quizzes & Games

Books2 315x190

How well do you know literary characters?

What is Lady Chatterley’s lover’s name?

Take the quiz
Poetry quiz1 315x190

Can you match these famous first lines to the right poems?

'I met a traveler from an antique land...'

Take the quiz

Oxford Global Languages

Our exciting new initiative to build dictionary resources for 100 of the world’s languages and to make them available online.

Find out more

Quote of the week

"True to oneself! Which self?"

Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923)
Fireworks

OED

Celebrate the OED's 90th birthday with a £90/$90 subscription!

Videos