The Concise Oxford Dictionary is recognized as the foremost authority on current modern English and for decades has been the standard reference for English in all fields. The Oxford English–Urdu Dictionary is the first Urdu rendition of The Concise Oxford Dictionary. This translation of the 9th edition of the world-famous dictionary contains more than 110,000 entries and around 180,000 defi nitions. It includes English headwords with their IPA pronunciations and compound words along with their Urdu equivalents.