Webster's Dictionary of American English

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earn American En with the first all-Americ learner's dictionary! From apple pie to zilch, the all-new Random House Webster's Dictionary of American English captures the flavor, idiom, style, and substance of American English. This dictionary's unique features make it an essential resource for learners and teachers of English: • Created from the Random House Living Dictionary Database™ • Recommended by a distinguished Advisory Board of consultants • Two pronunciation systems-standard American dictionary symbols and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols • "How to Use This Dictionary to Learn American English," a valuable learning aid translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish • Tens of thousands of lively example phrases and sentences • Main entries for hundreds of common English roots, each with a list of English words derived from the root • Easy-to-understand bracketed grammar codes • Full-page contextual illustrations • Pronunciation guide with key words selected from... Tovább

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earn American En with the first all-Americ learner's dictionary! From apple pie to zilch, the all-new Random House Webster's Dictionary of American English captures the flavor, idiom, style, and substance of American English. This dictionary's unique features make it an essential resource for learners and teachers of English: • Created from the Random House Living Dictionary Database™ • Recommended by a distinguished Advisory Board of consultants • Two pronunciation systems-standard American dictionary symbols and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols • "How to Use This Dictionary to Learn American English," a valuable learning aid translated into Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish • Tens of thousands of lively example phrases and sentences • Main entries for hundreds of common English roots, each with a list of English words derived from the root • Easy-to-understand bracketed grammar codes • Full-page contextual illustrations • Pronunciation guide with key words selected from English, Italian, French, Germán, and Spanish "Though the Americans are late in coming to this markét, they have now arrived in style." "A welcome and much needed aid for teaching new students of American English" Clifford Hill Tom McArthur Editor of English Today Cambridge, England Professor of Language & Education Teachers College, Columbia University New York Vissza