Winny Wang / Shanghai Daily news

An updated version of the English-Chinese Dictionary was published today with more than 20,000 new words added.

Many buzzwords, such as metrosexual, speed dating and podcast, are now in the dictionary, which has the definitions of more than 220,000 words and expressions.

The latest version also has abbreviations used on the Internet and sports items in the summer Olympic Games in Beijing next year.

Professor Lu Gusun, the chief compiler of an English-Chinese Dictionary, began the revision of the dictionary in 2001.

The original version was published 16 years ago.