Abstract：Langacker's proposal“Meaning is conceptualization”and later the revised version “Embodied Conceptualization”by Wang Yin are regarded as a new semantic view which enlightens dictionary composer a new direction for definition. Based on this theory, a lot of examples are used in this article to analyze definitions of new words ( 2010—2013) in Oxford English Dictionary aiming at expounding the interpretation of definition by means of“Embodied Conceptualization”. Under“Embodied Conceptualization”, the definitions of dictionaries should be designed from the users' perspective by different cognitive procedures such as scope and background, perspective, salience and specificity etc. A definition model should be established to improve the users' cognitive and lexical competence.

Keyword：embodied conceptualization;English new words;definition;