Features comprehensive coverage of English, with colour design, together with a section, tailored to the needs of students, offering advice on essays and dissertations, research, and note-taking, and help with basic English grammar. This work includes 144,000 words, phrases, and definitions.
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This revised second edition covers 145,000 words, phrases, and definitions. New to this edition are hundreds of brand-new words, as well as a set of appendices that includes a Guide to Internet and electronic English.
Over 145,000 Words, Phrases, and Definitions - Completely New Edition
A hardbacked dictionary for office, study, and home use. It provides accessible coverage of everyday English for people who want a less detailed dictionary than the "Concise Oxford Dictionary". This second edition is derived from the tenth edition of the "Concise Oxford Dictionary", and so uses evidence from the British National Corpus to show English as it is actually used throughout the English-speaking world. Individual entries are now clearer, with phrases, derivatives and etymologies all starting on a new line, and parts of speech, irregular inflections, subject and register labels all written out in full. Guidance on points of grammar, usage and spelling is provided in the shape of usage notes within the text. This book is intended for international students and general readership.
This edition of the Paperback Oxford English Dictionary combines a dictionary with encyclopedic information in a paperback format. It offers all the benefits of a traditional dictionary with over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions, guidance on grammar and usage in the shape of in-text notes, and thousands of example sentences showing words in use. Integrated into the dictionary are also over 4700 entries on people and places, while a supplement provides information on a range of subjects, from prime ministers and presidents to wedding anniversaries and alphabets.
An easy-to-use dictionary containing 90,000 up-to-date words, phrases, and definitions.
This dictionary offers coverage of English as an international language, the defining style is straightforward and non-technical, and thousands of examples illustrate idiomatic usage
Offers advice on how to use apostrophes and hyphens, and the differences between British and American spelling. This book mainly consists of a list of over 2000 words. Based on evidence of misspelling gathered from real situations, this guide provides help with spellings.
Provides definitions of words in contemporary use in English-speaking countries throughout the world, with examples of idiomatic uses, guides to irregular forms, notes on grammar and preferred usage, and lists of related terms.
