The Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus
With Language Guide
Description:... The Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus offers a thoroughly integrated blend of dictionary and thesaurus entries. This unified approach, treating meanings and related words within the same entry, makes it easy to find - in one place - an abundance of information about words, and provides a far more thorough analysis of the variety and nuances of our language than is possible in a dictionary or thesaurus alone. In addition, the Language Guide in the back of the dictionary offers an invaluable vocabulary builder and usage and style guide. Oxford's American dictionary staff, along with an international team of lexicographers, have drawn on the unparalleled lexical resources of Oxford University Press, the world's most respected authority on English language and dictionaries, to make the Oxford American Dictionary and Thesaurus the most wide-ranging resource available. It includes: * More than 200,000 entries and definitions and 300,000 synonyms thoroughly and conveniently integrated * Hundreds of new words and senses such as shareware, downsize, grunge, sidebar, and hypertext * Full coverage of English from around the globe Valuable appendices, including: * Selected Proverbs - nearly 1,000 including both old favorites and less-familiar bits of wisdom such as "Handsome is as handsome does," "A trouble shared is a trouble halved," and "There's many a good time played on an old fiddle" * Presidents of the U.S., States of the U.S., Countries of the World * Terms for Animal Groups (a clowder of cats, a skulk of foxes, a parliament of rooks) * Weights, Measures, Scientific Units, and Formulas * Chemical Elements and the Periodic Table * Musical Notation and the Orchestra * Helpful points on English usage, and much more.
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