WHY

COLLINS?

● Student: Mariam Dodashvili

 CONTENTS

 The brief history of Collins

Dictionary.
 What makes Collins
Dictionaries different from
the others? - COBUILD
and the Collins Corpus.
 How the word-entry is
formed in Online Collins
English Dictionary.
 THE HISTORY OF COLLINS DICTIONARY

1824 – The company’s first dictionary, The

Greek and English Lexicon.
1920s – Foreign language editions, travel
and reference Gems.
1971 – A new standard for bilingual
dictionaries (Collin Smith).
1978 – French dictionary, 1980 – German
dictionary.
1979 – The first edition of the Collins English
Dictionary.
1987- The first COBUILD Dictionary
William Collins (1789 – 1853)
 The most important achievements of the
COBUILD project:

1. 1. The creation and analysis of an electronic corpus of

contemporary text, the Collins Corpus, later leading to the
development of The Bank of English

2. 2. Producing the monolingual learner’s dictionary Collins

COBUILD English Language Dictionary, again, based on the study
of the COBUILD corpus.
 The Creation of The Collins Corpus

The slip of paper used for compiling the The equivalent entry for veritable once typed
entry veritable up into the dictionary database
 How the Use of Corpora Revolutionized
Lexicography:

1. Enabled us to have a more

democratic view of how language is
used in our society.

2. Added a degree of scientific

principles, changed the way the
analyses are done.
THE WORD-
ENTRY IN
COLLINS
ENGLISH
DICTIONARY
THE WORD-
ENTRY IN
COLLINS
ENGLISH
DICTIONARY
THE WORD-ENTRY IN COLLINS ENGLISH
DICTIONARY
 REFERENCES
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/about/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Collins_(publisher)
https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/the-history-of-cobuild/
https://blog.collinsdictionary.com/language-lovers/cobuild-the-
early-years-part-1-where-it-all-began/
https://www.futurelearn.com/info/courses/understanding-
dictionaries/0/steps/62810
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/trousers
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/eye
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/aubergine
 THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!