Concise English Dictionary

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Wordsworth Editions, 2007 - Fiction - 1104 pages

Highly 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.

 

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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
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