Buch, Englisch, 816 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, 816 Seiten
ISBN: 978-0-19-512673-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Based on a database of American English compiled in the USA, The Oxford American Desk Dictionary is completely up to date and designed for today's quick-reference needs. This superb dictionary also features more than 200 detailed illustrations (commissioned for this 1998 edition), helpful in-text Usage Notes, and hundreds of lively, informative Word Histories. Features: · More than 100,000 entries and definitions · New words and senses, some not found in any other dictionaries (biodiversity, debit card, home page, SUV) · Hundreds of in-text Usage Notes and Word Histories · Eye-catching, detailed illustrations, specially commissioned for this edition · Thousands of up-to-date biographical and geographical entries · Expanded 32-page Special Reference Section with Countries of the World, Signs and Symbols, Weights and Measures, US States and Presidents As a concise, thorough, up-to-date, yet handy resource, this dictionary is unsurpassed.
The OXford American Desk Dictionary offers more than 100,000 entries and definitions, complete with pronunciations, parts of speech, syllabication, inflected forms, and derivatives; 215 illustrations; hundreds of in-text word histories and usage notes; more than 3,300 biographical and geographical entires; and a special reference section with signs and symbols, countries of the world, weights and measures, states of the USA, US presidents, and more.
