The
Concise Oxford English Dictionary (officially titled
The Concise Oxford Dictionary until 2002, and widely abbreviated
COD or
COED) is probably the best-known of the 'smaller' Oxford
dictionaries. The latest edition of the
Concise Oxford English Dictionary contains over 240,000 entries and 1,728 pages (concise only compared to the
OED at over 21,000 pages). Its twelfth edition, published in 2011, is used by both the
United Nations and
NATO as the current authority for spellings in documents written in English for international use. It is available as an
e-book for a variety of
handheld device platforms. In addition to providing information for general use, it documents local variations such as United States and United Kingdom usage.