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The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary ( OALD) was the first advanced learner's dictionary of English. It was first published in 1948. It is the largest English-language dictionary from Oxford University Press aimed at a non-native audience. Users with a more linguistic interest, requiring etymologies or copious references, usually prefer the ...
The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...
Từ điển bách khoa Việt Nam ( lit: Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Vietnam) is a state-sponsored Vietnamese-language encyclopedia that was first published in 1995. It has four volumes consisting of 40,000 entries, the final of which was published in 2005. [1] The encyclopedia was republished in 2011. It is the first state encyclopedia of the ...
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary ( Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally ' Chinese -Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in ...
Đào Duy Anh (25 April 1904 – 1 April 1988) was a Vietnamese historian and lexicographer. He was born in Thanh Oai, Hà Tây, now, Hanoi. [citation needed] He was one of the writers associated with the Nhân Văn-Giai Phẩm affair. [1] [2] He was the general editor of what was long regarded as the most scholarly dictionary of Vietnamese ...
New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) Oxford University Press: 2001 3rd (ISBN 0-19-539288-4) 2010 2,096 350,000 American: Diacritical: Oxford Dictionary of English: Oxford University Press: 1998 3rd (ISBN 0-19-957112-0) 2010 2,112 355,000 British: IPA: Oxford English Dictionary (OED) Oxford University Press: 1895 2nd (20 vols., ISBN 0-19-861186 ...
Tô Vĩnh Diện. Tô Vĩnh Diện (1924–1 February 1954) was a soldier in the Việt Minh during the First Indochina War against France in Vietnam. Dien was proclaimed a national hero by the Việt Minh after his death in the period leading up to the Battle of Dien Bien Phu . Before the battle, General Võ Nguyên Giáp, commanding the ...
closest to the Kinh, the other main part of the Viet–Mường branch of the Vietic subfamily Thổ: 0.1%: 74,458 91,430: 2.05%: Nghệ An (71,420 people, constituting 78.11% of all Thổ in Vietnam), Thanh Hóa (11,470 people, constituting 12.55% of all Thổ in Vietnam) Tho - Related to Kinh Vietnamese 2. Austroasiatic (non-Vietic) Ba Na: 0. ...