1st? impression (1970-??-??) Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover) (/): 1 volume. 1st? impression (1973-11-??) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Hardcover) (/) ?th impression (1973-11-22) ?th impression (1975-??-??) The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Guild Publishing edition, Hardcover) (ASIN B00HLDC3M2) ?th impression (1985-??-??) Fourth edition The New SOED was prepared under the editorship of Lesley Brown 1980-1993 and was the first complete revision of the dictionary and should be considered a re-abridgement of the SOED and its supplements. The whole text was completely revised for the Fourth Edition, which was published in 1993 as the New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. The book attempted to include all English words which had substantial currency after 1700, plus the vocabulary of Shakespeare, John Milton, Edmund Spenser and the King James Version. As a historical dictionary, it includes obsolete words if they are used by major authors and earlier meanings where they explain the development of a word. Headwords are traced back to their earliest usage. Includes 97,600 headwords, 25,250 variant spellings, 500,000 definitions, 87,400 illustrative quotations and 7,333 sources of quotations (including 5,519 individual authors). The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover) () ?th impression (1993-??-??) The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary thumb index edition (Hardcover) (/) ?th impression (1993-10-14) The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary luxury edition (Hardcover) () ?th impression (1993-??-??) The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary leather bound edition () ?th impression (1993-??-??) Fifth edition The fifth edition was published in 2002, and contains more than half a million definitions, with 83,500 illustrative quotations from 7,000 authors. The name Shorter Oxford English Dictionary was used to emphasize the link between this two-volume dictionary and the original twenty-volume OED. Shorter Oxford English Dictionary Fifth Edition (Hardcover) (/) ?th impression (2002-12-31) Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on CD-ROM Version 2.0 (/): ?th impression (2003-01-09) Sixth edition On 21 September 2007, the sixth edition appeared. The dictionary now included 600,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering global English-speaking regions and 2500 new words and meanings from Oxford Dictionaries and Oxford English Corpus. As previously, the vocabulary included entries in general English from 1700 to the present day and in earlier major literary works. The dictionary included 80,000 quotations illustrating the use of words, thousands of newly discovered antedatings based on the continuing research for the OED, 2,500 new words and senses, thousands of antedatings of existing words from Oxford English Dictionary and Oxford English