The American College Dictionary

The American College Dictionary PDF Author: Clarence Lewis Barnhart
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1516

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The American College Dictionary

The American College Dictionary PDF Author: Clarence Lewis Barnhart
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1516

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The Oxford American College Dictionary

The Oxford American College Dictionary PDF Author:
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1704

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The Oxford American College Dictionaryis completely new, based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, which was published in October 2001. Drawing on Oxford's unparalleled language resources, including a 200-million-word database, this college dictionary contains: * more than 175,000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations, including line drawings, photographs and maps * boxed quotes from famous writers, demonstrating word usage and style * country guides-shaded boxes highlighting the most important geographical information on more than 180 countries-with maps * "core sense" organization of definitions, a brand-new and utterly sensible plan in which subordinate definitions flow logically from primary ones, and the most important usage of the word comes first * thumb index tabs for easy searching

The American College Dictionary

The American College Dictionary PDF Author: Clarence Lewis Barnhart
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1558

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The American Heritage College Writer's Dictionary

The American Heritage College Writer's Dictionary PDF Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
ISBN: 9780547857855
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Presents a dictionary for college and advanced high school students which in addition to word definitions also includes a punctuation and style guide, notes on word origins, and a gazetteer of countries, states, and capitals.

The American College Dictionary

The American College Dictionary PDF Author: Clarence Lewis Barnhart
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Languages : en
Pages : 1444

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The American Heritage College Dictionary

The American Heritage College Dictionary PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9780618835959
Category : Americanisms
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Includes definitions, explanatory photographs and illustrations, and guidelines for using the dictionary.

The Dictionary Wars

The Dictionary Wars PDF Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.

Webster's II New College Dictionary

Webster's II New College Dictionary PDF Author: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395962145
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1542

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Newly revised and updated, "Webster's II New College Dictionary" contains more than 200,000 definitions, including scientific, technology, and computer terms. 400 line drawings.

The Century Dictionary

The Century Dictionary PDF Author: William Dwight Whitney
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1228

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Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition

Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition PDF Author: Editors of Editors of Webster's New World College Dictionaries
Publisher: Webster's New World
ISBN: 9780358126614
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1728

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Webster's New World College Dictionary is a favorite of newsrooms and copyeditors nationwide, and it is the official dictionary of The Associated Press Stylebook.This dictionary features a clear and accessible defining style, abundant synonym notes, full-page tables and charts, hundreds of drawings that complement the definitions, and authoritative guidance on usage and style points. It also includes extensive coverage of Americanisms (words, phrases, and senses coined by an American or first used in the United States). It has added nearly 5,000 new entries, including terms from the areas of arts and sports, science and medicine, computers and the Internet, food, business, politics, and law. Tens of thousands of revisions have been made to existing senses, to bring them up-to-date and to reflect current usage. A reference supplement includes: Rules of punctuation, Roman numerals, Calendars, Monetary units, Currency symbols, Names for large number, Books of the Bible, Meteorological data, Commonly used weights and measures, Planets of the solar system, Geologic time scale, and Periodic table of the elements.