''The Penguin English Dictionary'' is a one-volume
English-language
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dictionary published by
Penguin Books
Penguin Books Limited is a Germany, German-owned English publishing, publishing house. It was co-founded in 1935 by Allen Lane with his brothers Richard and John, as a line of the publishers the Bodley Head, only becoming a separate company the ...
. It is their flagship dictionary with over 70,000 entries, first published in 2000.
The ''Penguin English Dictionary'' is currently in its third edition, and its chief editor is
Robert Allen. The specialist contributors and advisers involve writers for books,
newspaper
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s, magazines etc.
The dictionary is also variously known as ''The New Penguin English Dictionary'' (1st edition) or ''The Penguin Complete English Dictionary''. The second edition was published in 2003 and the third in late 2007.
English dictionaries
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