The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Current English

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The sixth edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary is the most radical revision yet undertaken of a dictionary that for over sixty years has held its place as the most widely accepted authority on current English. It contains entries for nearly 40,000 headwords, with a total of 74,000 vocabulary items altogether, including derivatives, compounds, and abbreviations.
The editor has had access to all the material assembled for the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, now in course of publication, and has taken full account of the many hundreds of words and meanings that have entered the language as a result of scientific and technological change, increased international communication, and innovations in literature and the arts. A line-by-line revision has been made, and every definition reconsidered and rewritten where necessary. American forms are given systematically, and the dictionary now includes a wider range of expressions from the rest of the English-speaking world... Tovább

Fülszöveg

The sixth edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary is the most radical revision yet undertaken of a dictionary that for over sixty years has held its place as the most widely accepted authority on current English. It contains entries for nearly 40,000 headwords, with a total of 74,000 vocabulary items altogether, including derivatives, compounds, and abbreviations.
The editor has had access to all the material assembled for the Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, now in course of publication, and has taken full account of the many hundreds of words and meanings that have entered the language as a result of scientific and technological change, increased international communication, and innovations in literature and the arts. A line-by-line revision has been made, and every definition reconsidered and rewritten where necessary. American forms are given systematically, and the dictionary now includes a wider range of expressions from the rest of the English-speaking world outside the British Isles.
The new and enlarged Introduction explains the way in which information is presented, and provides full explanatory notes on pronunciation, grammatical inflexion, and etymology.
Users of former editions of this celebrated dictionary will find that despite the changes the underlying aim of the original editors still remains: to provide a compact but comprehensive and reliable dictionary of modern English suitable for the widest possible use at all levels. Vissza