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Provides over three hundred thousand entries, including one thousand new words, and a world atlas

Over 11,000 main-entry words in alphabetical order recommended for writers, speakers, students, and business people.

With fifty years of dictionary publishing experience, this unabridged dictionary serves as the most definitive single-volume reference for the English language. It combines a comprehensive traditional study of the language with the latest developments, utilizing cutting-edge technology to ensure timely updates. The innovative Living Dictionary Database allows for immediate online editing, enabling the addition of vital new vocabulary as it emerges. This dictionary caters to a diverse audience, including students, scholars, professional writers, businesspeople, and word enthusiasts. It features standard and specialized vocabulary, as well as up-to-date factual and encyclopedic information, making it a unique reference for offices, schools, and families. Key features include a new eight-page section with over 1,000 important new words, more than 315,000 entries, 1,500 updated definitions, and 2,400 illustrations. It provides scholarly etymologies, entries for notable people and places, and reflects recent political and geographical changes. Additionally, it includes example phrases, metric equivalents, endangered species identification, and comprehensive supplementary notes addressing usage, pronunciation, and regional variations. This edition maintains extensive coverage of modern American English while being reformatted for ease of use, ensuring it remains the most current and authoritative single-volume dictionary availabl

In Defense of Good Eanglish The words Oxford Dictionary have long stood for ultimate authority in the English language. Now students and general readers can get the some thoroughness, precision, and certainty in the long-awaited OXFORD AMERICAN DICTIONARY, the first modern paperbound dictionary to lay down the law on correct grammar Hundreds of notes on usage clarify grammatical points and words that are easily confused: Should you use chairperson or chairwoman? Is disinterested an acceptable way of expressing lack of interest? Is it correct to say the media is doing anything? Can one catch a movie? The OXFORD AMERICAN DICTIONARY is completely up-to-date and establishes a firm standard for all lovers of our language. While the dictionary follows the Oxford style and linguistic criteria, the editorial staff is headed by three eminent American lexicographers: Stuart Berg Flexner, noted for his work on American slang; Eugene Ehrlich of Columbia University, author of several books on American usage; and Gorton Carruth, former Editor-in-Chief of Funk and Wagnalls. Joyce Hawkins, who reviewed the material for the Oxford Dictionary Department, has been described in newspapers throughout the world as "the lady lexicographer who has declared a one-woman war on sloppy English."

AMERICAN SLANG - The highly colored, many-flavored words and expressions of every sector of our national life--the beat generation, Madison Avenue, the underworld, prizefighters, teenyboppers, addicts, astronauts, soda jerks, and hobos. Slang is the popular expression of many sub-groups--some of which are the Army, Navy & Merchant Marine, immigrants, hobos & tramps, railroad workers, baseball players & fans, show business workers, high school students & general teenagers, college students, financial district employees, jazz musicians & fans, narcotic addicts, & the underworld. Each group's unique words are listed and defined amongst thousands of definitions of American Slang!