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Pocket Oxford American Dictionary

Completely redesigned and rewritten, the second edition of Pocket Oxford American Dictionary combines its highly popular packaging with a dramatic revision of the copy, with completely reworded entries throughout.
With more than 140,000 words, phrases, and definitions, including a wealth of new words, sample sentences, and usage notes, this marvelous edition makes it easier than ever before to find the correct meaning of a word. The editors have completely rewritten the entries, stressing everyday English to make each definition as accessible as possible. Moreover, they have used the latest evidence from the Oxford English Corpus–a vast database of some two billion words, offering an unparalleled portrait of our language–to uncover the most common and most important meanings of words and phrases in contemporary American English. The editors have organized the meanings in an entry according to these findings, so that the most likely definition of a word occurs first. I

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    Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus

    For anyone who has ever spent time going back and forth from the thesaurus to the dictionary, in search of just the right word, The Oxford American Dictionary & Thesaurus is the perfect tool – an all-in-one desk reference offering the range and depth of a full dictionary, with a wide selection of synonyms and antonyms, plus valuable writing tips and information – all combined in one convenient, integrated volume.

    The Second Edition contains more than 150,000 words, phrases and definitions – twice as many as the competition – plus approximately 184,000 synonyms and antonyms. More important, the new edition now completely integrates the dictionary and thesaurus text, with the synonyms and antonyms directly following the dictionary definitions of their related part of speech. The new edition also boasts a fresh redesign of the interior, featuring an open, well-spaced layout and a more readable type, with the thesaurus sections clearly differentiated from the di

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      The New Oxford American Dictionary

      Produced by Oxford’s American Dictionaries Program, and drawing on the expertise of scores of American scholars and advisors, The New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country.

      Here is the most accurate and richly descriptive picture of American English ever offered in any dictionary. Oxford’s American editors drew on our 200-million-word databank of contemporary North American English, plus the unrivaled citation files of the world-renowned Oxford English Dictionary.  We started with American evidence — an unparalleled resource unique to Oxford.  Our staff logged more than 50 editor-years, checking every entry and every definition.  Oxford’s ongoing North American Reading Program, begun in the early 1980s, keeps our lexicographers in touch with fresh evidence of our language and usage–in novels and newspapers, in public records and magazines, and on-line, too.

      To provide unprecedented clarity, the e

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