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Now fully revised for its fourth edition, this is the most up-to-date and easy-to-use dictionary available in paperback. As well as clear definitions of everyday vocabulary, with helpful examples, there are encyclopedic entries for famous people, places and institutions.
Selling over 1.5 million copies since it was first published, the dictionary contains over 60,000 entries (5,000 new to this edition), 74,000 definitions, and 4,000 encyclopedic entries. It also provides helpful usage notes with guidance on correct English and indicates difficult pronunciations
through a simple system of respelling. Famous people covered in this new edition range from Bill Clinton and Desmond Tutu to Stephen Hawking, Steffi Graf, and Madonna; and with a lively new vocabulary covering such terms as bail bandit, hotting, love handle, and negative equity, The Oxford Paperback
Dictionary is truly the most readable, reliable, and contemporary dictionary of its kind.
New words include: awesome, cook chill, couch potato, crusty, gene therepy, gobsmacked, human shield, internal market, keyhole surgery, off-roading, ozone hole, pit bull terrier, ram-raider, spin doctor, and stonker.
Famous people covered include: Maya Angelou, Kenneth Branagh, Clint Eastwood, Vaclav Havel, Michael Jackson, Carl Lewis, Robert Maxwell, Luciano Pavarotti, Salman Rushdie, Meryl Streep, Alice Walker, and Boris Yeltsin.
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About the Author
Elaine Pollard is a freelance lexicographer and former Research Fellow at Birmingham University and UMIST.
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'The Oxford Paperback has always been renowned for its clear definitions of everyday vocabulary and this edition has over 60,000 entries including 5,000 new ones.'
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- PublisherOxford Univ Pr
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 0192800124
- ISBN 13 9780192800121
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number4
- Number of pages938
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