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One of many interesting facts about words we learned in "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester (2003) is that the most complex word in the language is "set." This "immense" three-letter word has some 430 senses, requiring a 60,000-word definition spread over 24 pages in the tiny print of the published dictionary or 221 pages in PDF form. Even for the OED, a dictionary that gives comprehensive definitions and examples for every "core" word in the English language, this is an insanely long definition. So what does "set" mean? Here's the full definition, courtesy of Oxford University Press:

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Simon Winchester（2003）の「TheMeaning of Everything：The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary」で学んだ単語に関する多くの興味深い事実の1つは、言語で最も複雑な単語が「設定されている」ということです。 この「巨大な」3文字の単語には約430の感覚があり、出版物の小さな印刷物の24ページにまたがる60,000語の定義が必要です。

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One of the many interesting facts about words learned in "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester (2003) is that the most complex words in the language are "set". This "huge" three-letter word has about 430 senses and is a small publication

INTO JAPANESE

Simon Winchester（2003）の「TheMeaning of Everything：The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary」で学んだ単語に関する多くの興味深い事実の1つは、言語で最も複雑な単語が「設定」されていることです。 この「巨大な」3文字の単語は約430の感覚を持ち、小さな出版物です

BACK INTO ENGLISH

One of the many interesting facts about words learned in "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" by Simon Winchester (2003) is that the most complex words in the language are "set". This "huge" three-letter word has about 430 senses and is a small publication