Paperback Oxford English Dictionary - Softcover

Catherine Soanes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198614241 ISBN 13: 9780198614241

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2006

Synopsis

This is a new and fully updated edition of the Paperback Oxford English Dictionary, offering over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions. It covers all the words you need for everyday use, carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a databank of 21st century English,
containing hundreds of millions of words.

For the new edition the definitions are clearer than ever before and there are extra usage notes to help with tricky points of grammar. Brand-new spelling notes give quick and easy help on commonly misspelled words, such as exaggerate and necessary.

A brand-new Factfinder centre section gives quick-reference entries on people, places, and events, as well as useful lists of, for example, the world's seas and oceans, presidents and prime ministers, and countries and currencies.

This portable and affordable dictionary is ideal for puzzle and crossword-solving, but also perfect for general reference at home, at school, or in the office. A new open design ensures that this dictionary is even more accessible and easier to use than ever before.

About this title

About the Author:

This dictionary is compiled by Oxford Dictionaries.

Review:

Complete dictionary and reference volume all rolled into one, at a splendidly low price. It includes all the words you will ever need for ordinary everyday use set out in the easy-to-use typography for which Oxford dictionaries are famous. * Writers Online * [The] quick-reference English dictionary in a new paperback edition from Oxford is fully revised and excellent value for money ... [It is] ideal for quizzes and puzzle-solving. * Suite 101 *

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0198614241
• ISBN 13: 9780198614241
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 898