MPL now offers the online Oxford English Dictionary!
Are you a word freak? An etymology fan? a connoisseur of the lingua anglica (which has, of course, become the lingua franca of modern times)? Milwaukee Public Library is pleased to announce that our users now have access to the Oxford English Dictionary online database. The Oxford English Dictionary database is available to all users within Milwaukee Public Library locations, as well as by remote access to City of Milwaukee cardholders, who can authenticate themselves using their library card number and PIN.
Search for the word you need and find definitions as well as quotations documenting historical uses of the term. The OED database also allows you to browse the dictionary entries in alphabetic order, explore by categories (such as subject, usage, region, or origin), and examine timelines, sources, and a historical thesaurus.
Milwaukee Public Library's 13 libraries house millions of books containing billions of words, and you will find almost all of those words in the Oxford English Dictionary. Try it today!