The New Webster's Concise Dictionary of the English Language

by Sidney I. Landau

The New Webster's Concise Dictionary of the English Language: Encyclopedic Edition This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1582795746
• ISBN13: 9781582795744
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Trident Reference Publishing
• Length: 1070 Pages

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An Affordable, Concise Dictionary

This Webster version is an up-to-date concise reference edition of the English language. Webster's dictionary is compiled with over 85,000 entries with about 1,000 illustrations, including maps, charts and tables. It provides thousands of illustrative quotations to help with word meanings, notes on troublesome and confusing words and their usage, plus concise word roots and etymologies. Other features include clear and precise definitions, synonyms, an authoritative guide to punctuation and tables of Weights and Measures. Also in addition are sixteen (16) encyclopedic supplements: abbreviations, gazetteer, grammar and usage, the library research paper, Greek and Latin elements, foreign words and phrases, given names, business law, business math, business letter writing, wills and estate planning, perpetual calendar, word processing glossary, metrics glossary, units of measurement-conversion factors, weights and measures. It makes an excellent, indispensable reference tool for the entire family household, school and for the office.