The Oxford name is synonymous with dictionaries. Oxford is trusted to support learning in homes, schools, and higher education classrooms. Our world-renowned user-friendly dictionaries range from school dictionaries to advanced monolingual, bilingual, multilingual and reference dictionaries.

Building on this tradition and experience, Oxford publishes local dictionaries to ensure that South African English is documented and is planning to extend its dictionary publishing to all languages in South Africa. Our local dictionary publishing is aimed at supporting learning within the multilingual context for South Africa.

Our local range covers all phases in schools and is complemented by subject-specific dictionaries, with explanations on subject-specific terminology, written especially for those learners whose language of learning is not their mother-tongue.

Oxford supports the use of its dictionaries through dictionary workshops for booksellers, teachers and higher education institutions. These support the use of dictionaries at all levels of education and equip learners and teachers with critical skills in accessing reference materials.

Our range of thesauruses provides a complete range of word alternatives.