Webster's New World Dictionary

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WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY "
Here is a dictionary that is comprehensive enough to answer the many questions that come up daily at work, at home, or at school. This CONCISE EDITION, based upon the famed Webster's New World Dictionary, College Edition, contains over 100,000 entries—more than enough to serve your everyday dictionary needs, and thousands more than any other dictionary in this price range. Examine a page or so of definitions anywhere in this book, and you will discover for yourself many features usually found only in high-priced dictionaries.
Note how thorough World-Webster editors are in defining, for instance, even a simple word like eye: you will find ten different meanings for the noun, two for the verb, seventeen idiomatic expressions, plus an illustration clearly showing the parts of the human eye. You will also find clear, informative etymologies, and useful synonyms included along with the definitions. Where the word requires it, illustrative sentences... Tovább

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WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY "
Here is a dictionary that is comprehensive enough to answer the many questions that come up daily at work, at home, or at school. This CONCISE EDITION, based upon the famed Webster's New World Dictionary, College Edition, contains over 100,000 entries—more than enough to serve your everyday dictionary needs, and thousands more than any other dictionary in this price range. Examine a page or so of definitions anywhere in this book, and you will discover for yourself many features usually found only in high-priced dictionaries.
Note how thorough World-Webster editors are in defining, for instance, even a simple word like eye: you will find ten different meanings for the noun, two for the verb, seventeen idiomatic expressions, plus an illustration clearly showing the parts of the human eye. You will also find clear, informative etymologies, and useful synonyms included along with the definitions. Where the word requires it, illustrative sentences help differentiate between shades of meaning.
As you check through the pages of this dictionary, you will note above all the guiding standards of exactness and clarity. A few minutes spent examining this book will convince you that it offers you everything you want in a dictionary to serve your everyday needs at home, school and office.
NELSON, FOSTER & SCOTT Limited
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CONCISE EDITION
WEBSTER'S NEW WORLD DICTIONARY
Another in the series of Webster's New World Dictionaries, compiled by World's permanent dictionary staff, contains those basic features that have brought the College Edition to a pre-eminent position in its field.
It is the conspicuous success of this earlier work that has encouraged the publishers to produce the Concise Edition at a price that makes it available to everybody.
The basic features that insure the same high achievement for this popular edition include:
Over 100,000 vocabulary entries—more words than in any other dictionary in this price range-an up-to-date coverage with special emphasis on idiomatic expressions, colloquialisms, and slang, important features of American English.
Biographical and geographical entries, foreign expressions, and abbreviations, all
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in the main body of the book, in a single alphabetical listing.
Definitions that are distilled, but not evaporated—a full and deliberate treatment, including all important meanings of every word, with synonyms where they can be found easily, after the definition itself— and with many examples of usage.
An approach to grammar and usage that describes rather than commands, in line with the scientific views of modern language study.
Etymologies that are brief and to the point, giving the language of origin and the elements of which the word is composed, for a better understanding of its current meanings.
Realistic pronunciations—those of General American speech—recorded in a system of easily understood markings—and with all important variant pronunciations entered—full pronunciation key on every right-hand page.
Over 600 pictures, illustrating more than 1,000 terms, that help explain objects and, wherever possible, show them in actual use.
Larger and clearer type than in other dictionaries of this class—a format designed to help you find easily what you want.
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