A statement from OUP said, "Rather than offering a dictionary website for every digitally under-resourced language, we will facilitate third parties to build products and services that best serve the needs of each individual language community. In March 2020, the remaining Oxford Living Dictionaries websites, which hosted dictionaries made in the Global Languages programme, were closed. "Lexico" was itself part of the former name of the company, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. While the offer of the US English dictionary on Oxford Living Dictionaries was terminated upon the migration to Lexico except for words which the UK dictionary did not have entries for, the US dictionary became fully available again on Lexico in early 2020. In June 2019, the free-of-charge dictionaries of English and Spanish were moved to, a collaboration between OUP and, though with the lexicographic content continuing to be written solely by OUP staff. In 2016, the free content of Oxford Dictionaries Online was rebranded as Oxford Living Dictionaries, and the subscription content as Oxford Dictionaries Premium. In 2014, OUP launched Oxford Global Languages, an initiative to build lexical resources (bilingual dictionaries) of the world's languages, starting with Zulu and Northern Sotho online dictionaries released in 2015. As of June 2014, it was updated every three months. It also provided a Spanish monolingual dictionary and bilingual dictionaries between English and several languages. The website's English dictionaries incorporated content of the Oxford Dictionary of English, New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford Thesaurus of English, and Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus. ![]() Buyers of the third edition of the Oxford Dictionary of English, also published in 2010, were granted a one-year subscription to the website's subscription content. In 2010, Oxford Dictionaries Online was launched under, superseding the dictionary content of. In the 2000s, OUP allowed access to content of the Compact Oxford English Dictionary of Current English on a website called. The dictionaries' definitions have also appeared in Google definition search and the Dictionary application on macOS, among others, licensed through the Oxford Dictionaries API. ![]() The website was closed and redirected to on 26 August 2022.īefore the Lexico site was launched, the Oxford Dictionary of English and New Oxford American Dictionary were hosted by OUP's own website Oxford Dictionaries Online ( ODO), later known as Oxford Living Dictionaries. While the dictionary content on Lexico came from OUP, this website was operated by, whose eponymous website hosts dictionaries by other publishers such as Random House. ![]() Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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