Concise English DictionaryHighly acclaimed for its competitive edge on other editions of its kind, the Wordsworth Concise English Dictionary is an authorative, user friendly and up-to-date lexicon of the world's most widely used language. It reflects the usage not just of the UK and the USA but also of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and all those parts of the world where English is the first language. The perfect reference book for everyday use, it provides definitions written in clear, jargon-free language readily accessible to every level of reader, and care has been taken to include coverage of current scientific and technical terminology, as well as literary and colloquial words and phrases. Impressively comprehensive, this dictionary contains 121,000 references and over 156,000 definitions. No citizen of the world today can afford to be without a dictionary of this quality. |
Contents
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 8 |
Section 3 | 64 |
Section 4 | 189 |
Section 5 | 201 |
Section 6 | 202 |
Section 7 | 211 |
Section 8 | 225 |
Section 18 | 482 |
Section 19 | 493 |
Section 20 | 520 |
Section 21 | 525 |
Section 22 | 544 |
Section 23 | 649 |
Section 24 | 799 |
Section 25 | 817 |
Section 9 | 229 |
Section 10 | 239 |
Section 11 | 256 |
Section 12 | 282 |
Section 13 | 321 |
Section 14 | 324 |
Section 15 | 367 |
Section 16 | 405 |
Section 17 | 445 |
Section 26 | 930 |
Section 27 | 947 |
Section 28 | 978 |
Section 29 | 1008 |
Section 30 | 1009 |
Section 31 | 1050 |
Section 32 | 1084 |