M, the record was progressively broken by the verbs make in 2000, then put in 2007, then run in 2011 with 645 senses.

Despite its considerable size, the OED is neither the world's largest nor the earliest exhaustive dictionary of a language. Another earlier large dictionary is the Grimm brothers' 33-volume dictionary of the German language, Deutsches Wörterbuch, begun in 1838 and completed in 1961. The first edition of the [[Vocabolario degli