Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB) is a dictionary

Dictionary

A dictionary is a collection of words in one or more specific languages, often listed alphabetically, with usage information, definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

 published by the Swedish Academy

Swedish Academy

The Swedish Academy , founded in 1786 by King Gustav III, is one of the Royal Academies of Sweden.-History:The Swedish Academy was founded in 1786 by King Gustav III. Modelled after the Académie française, it has 18 members. The motto of the Academy is "Talent and Taste"...

, with the official title Ordbok över svenska språket utgiven av Svenska Akademien. This dictionary is the Swedish counterpart of the Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary , published by the Oxford University Press, is the self-styled premier dictionary of the English language. Two fully bound print editions of the OED have been published under its current name, in 1928 and 1989. The first edition was published in twelve volumes , and...

(OED) or the Deutsches Wörterbuch

Deutsches Wörterbuch

Das Deutsche Wörterbuch / Deutsches Wörterbuch is one of the most important dictionaries of the German language...

(DWB).

The first volume was published in 1898 and as of 2008 work has progressed to words beginning with the letter "T", and words from A to TYNA are available in the online version of the dictionary. The dictionary has approximately 450,000 main entries, and is expected to be complete around 2017. A searchable web version has been available since 1997.

External links

• Svenska Akademiens Ordbok
• The Swedish Academy – Official site (in English)