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Webster’s New World German Dictionary: German/English English/German (Paperback)

Webster's New World German Dictionary: German/English English/German

Compiled in collaboration with a team of expert linguists, the Webster’s New World concise bilingual dictionaries are the perfect choice for beginning students and advanced speakers as well.Comprehensive and authoritative, yet clear and concise, the dictionaries offer a full array of features, as well as wide-ranging coverage of current expressions. Long-standing favorites in hardcover, the dictionaries will continue to be standard references for years to come — especially now that they are available in unabridged paperback editions.More than 100,000 words, giving wide-ranging coverage of current terms and expressionsDetailed definitions so the user can understand and translate idiomaticallyExtensive examples of usage, showing how translations of words can vary according to contextVerb tables, including irregular verbsCross-references from every verb to the appropriate verb table

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Collins French Concise Dictionary, 4e (HarperCollins Concise Dictionaries) (English and French Edition) (Paperback)

Collins French Concise Dictionary, 4e (HarperCollins Concise Dictionaries) (English and French Edition)

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Customer Feedback “…good dictionary…my knowledge of French was several decades old and this is helping me get up to date with more modern colloquialisms.” P Smith, Luton.
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Practical, user-friendly, comprehensive The Collins French Concise Dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of contemporary French—from reality TV to text message, internaute to malbouffe New two-color format allows easy access to the entry word you are looking for Special entries throughout highlight various aspects of French life and culture Exclusive keyword feature provides additional help with translating the most essential vocabulary Extra help with grammar: Extensive examples are given for grammatical constructions and idiomatic usage Step-by-step guide to French grammar includes hundreds of examples

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Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Laminated Cover) (Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Laminated)) [Bargain Price] [Hardcover]

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Laminated Cover) (Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (Laminated))

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*Starred Review* The first Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (M-W) was published in 1898, and the tenth edition had a copyright date of 1993. The eleventh edition brings many new words, a CD-ROM, and a free one-year subscription to Merriam-Webster Collegiate.com, which includes the text of the dictionary as well as the Collegiate Thesaurus, Collegiate Encyclopedia, and Merriam-Webster’s Spanish-English Dictionary.Now for the numbers. M-W has a paper file of 15,700,000 citations from which their lexicographers chose 10,000 new words, for a total of 165,000 entries and 225,000 definitions. There are 100,000 “changes” from the tenth edition. Users asked for more usage examples and idioms and phrases, so there are now 40,000 examples and a “significant” increase in idioms. There are 91,000 pronunciations, 33,000 etymologies, 2,700 illustrative quotations, 650 foreign words and phrases, and 700 illustrations.As the world rushes on, so does the time taken (more…)

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