A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára. The seven volumes of The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language were published between 1959 and 1962 by the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences. It covers Hungarian literary language of the 19th century as well as the written and spoken standard Hungarian of the first half of the 20th century. The main source of input was a corpus of about 6 million examples collected since the end of the 19th century. Each sense unit is illustrated by a few examples: citations from the classical Hungarian literature and example sentences created by the lexicographers.