The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

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THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, from which this paperback edition was created, is a new dictionary.: new ín' content, new in formát, and new ín the wealth of information it offers. The idea for a trulyAmerican dictionary was conceived by the staff of. American Heritage out of their deep sense of resppnsibility as custodians of the American traditioh in íanguage as well as history. Five years in the making as.a joint project of American Heritage Publishing Company. and Houghton Mifflin Company, it was prepared with the assistance of several hundred of America's most notable educators, wrLterá, editors, and public speákers. Among the.many special features that make this Dell editiorí clearly superior to any comparable paperback dictionary: • More entries and more illustrations than any other paperback dictionary • The first paperback dictionary with photographs • Words defined in modern-day íanguage that is clear and precise • Over one hundred nq^s on usage... Tovább

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THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, from which this paperback edition was created, is a new dictionary.: new ín' content, new in formát, and new ín the wealth of information it offers. The idea for a trulyAmerican dictionary was conceived by the staff of. American Heritage out of their deep sense of resppnsibility as custodians of the American traditioh in íanguage as well as history. Five years in the making as.a joint project of American Heritage Publishing Company. and Houghton Mifflin Company, it was prepared with the assistance of several hundred of America's most notable educators, wrLterá, editors, and public speákers. Among the.many special features that make this Dell editiorí clearly superior to any comparable paperback dictionary: • More entries and more illustrations than any other paperback dictionary • The first paperback dictionary with photographs • Words defined in modern-day íanguage that is clear and precise • Over one hundred nq^s on usage with more factual information than any paperback dictionary • Unique appendix of Indo-European roots • Authoriiative definitions of new words from science and technoiogy • More than one hundred illustrative quotations from Shakespeare to Salinger, Spenser to Sontag • Hundreds of geographic and biographical entries ^ Pictures of all the Presidents of the United States • Lcfö^afor maps for all the countries of the world Vissza