2.11.2025 – sixty four meanings

sixty four meanings
for noun, set, seventeen are
labelled obsolete

According to the Online Oxford English Dictionary.

Sometimes, we would go upstairs to the room where he worked, just the two of us, and go through his O.E.D. together. He was proud of that handsome set . . . ‘set’ — that word has one of the longest entries in the O.E.D., fifty four columns of nouns, verbs, adjectives, I think. That was what fascinated Thurber. I would read him the ‘set’ definitions for hours on end.

From Thurber : a biography by Burton Bernstein (Dodd, Mead, New York, 1975).

See also “For Muggs and Rex.”