''Dicționarul Limbii Române'' (''"The Romanian Language Dictionary"''), abbreviated DLR, also called Thesaurus Dictionary of the Romanian Language, is the most important lexicographical work of the

Romanian language Romanian (obsolete spelling: Roumanian; , or , ) is the official and main language of Romania and Moldova. Romanian is part of the Eastern Romance languages, Eastern Romance sub-branch of Romance languages, a linguistic group that evolved fr ...

, developed under the aegis of the Romanian Academy during more than a century. It was compiled and edited in two stages (known under the brand DA series during 1906–1944 and new series, DLR, from 1965 to 2010), in 37 volumes and contains about 175,000 words and variations, with more than 1,300,000 quotes. The development of electronic version was made in 2007–2010. This dictionary by size and perspective lexicographical approach is similar to the major dictionaries of world lexicography:

Oxford English Dictionary 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 editio ...

(OED),

Trésor de la langue française The ''Trésor de la langue française'' (; ''TLF''; "Treasury of the French Language"; subtitled ''Dictionnaire de la langue du XIXe et du XXe siècle (1789–1960)'') is a 16-volume dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from ...

, Deutsches Wörterbuch etc.Dan Cristea, Gabriela Haja, Alex Moruz, Marius Răschip, Mădălin Pătrașcu. Statistici parțiale la încheierea proiectului eDTLR – Dicționarul tezaur al limbii române în format electronic. Universitatea "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iași
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