Oxford Dictionaries Books

The Oxford Primary Illustrated Maths Dictionary is specially designed to support the maths curriculum requirements at primary school. With comprehensive coverage of carefully-levelled maths terminology, clear definitions, and colourful illustrations, this is the perfect dictionary for use in the classroom and at home.

This is the top of the range Dictionary and Thesaurus, the ideal all-in-one reference tool. It has a fresh design, based on market research into user needs, with a combined dictionary and thesaurus text that is simple and effective to use, and has a new centre section for enthusiastic crossword and puzzle solvers.

A large print dictionary specially developed and designed with the help and support of RNIB.

This is a phizz-whizzing thesaurus of words invented by No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl and hundreds of real synonyms gathered together in themes. It's jammed full of words, Quentin Blake's illustrations, and language snippets to inspire children to write about anything - from human beans to witches, to outerspace, to food, giants and more!

This edition of the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary is fully updated with thousands of new words, updated cultural notes, and sample utility bills, bank statements, and rent agreements, for anyone who needs help with daily life in France. It is ideal for students at advanced level and beyond, and is especially useful for the language student abroad, or the second home owner.

The Oxford English Thesaurus for Schools is carefully targeted to support secondary school students with their creative writing, to extend vocabulary, improve spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and to inspire them to become confident writers.

This major new edition of the Oxford Junior Illustrated Thesaurus has new contemporary 3D artwork, and a modern, accessible look and feel. Specially written by children's word experts, it will support young creative writers at school and at home.

Take Off In Spanish makes learning or brushing up on the language quick, easy, and fun. Follow an integrated course including activities and dialogues with native speakers so you can feel confident in day-to-day conversation. The course offers expert help when you are travelling with a handyphrase book and mp3 audio download for practice while on the move.This complete language learning kit contains everything you need to speak, read, write and understand Spanish, and gives you flexibility when learning. The pack includes a clear, easy-to-use coursebook, full mp3 audio available to download, 5 audio CDs, including an extra practice CD, a handytravel dictionary and phrasebook, and online activities and dialogues to support you as you pick up your new language.

The Concise Oxford Thesaurus provides coverage of over 300,000 synonyms and antonyms, making it the ideal reference tool to improve your writing style or find the word you need to solve that crossword or puzzle.

The Oxford Student's Mathematics Dictionary provides comprehensive revision and exam support to secondary school students. This fully updated new edition has more words to match the new curriculum requirements and the higher vocabulary expectations at GCSE and beyond. Its clear layout and helpful diagrams make it contemporary and easy to use.

Bilingual French-English visual dictionary, stunning illustrations and over 1500 animal words

Ideal for students preparing for exams, this new edition of the Student's Thesaurus provides advanced vocabulary to enrich writing across the curriculum. With a clear layout and real life examples, it gives students confidence with language for exams. The writing supplement will improve success in exams.

This new edition of the bestselling Oxford Mini School Dictionary has contemporary and comprehensive vocabulary coverage. New words and up-to-date definitions support today's students with their language and spelling skills. Complete with example sentences and word origins, this handy dictionary helps with the transition from primary to secondary.

A compact, intermediate-level dictionary covering over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations, including new words in each language. In addition, there are supplements on grammar, correspondence, and a brand-new section on using the Internet.

A compact, intermediate-level English-Chinese and Chinese-English dictionary covering over 90,000 words and phrases, and over 120,000 translations, including new words in each language. Pinyin romanization and Mandarin pronunciations are given throughout and characters are easily looked up either by pinyin or by radical index.

This new dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential Italian and English, and extra help with Italian and English verbs and pronunciation, all in a compact and affordable format.

The Oxford English Dictionary for Schools is carefully targeted to support secondary school students with their independent reference skills, to improve their spelling, punctuation, and grammar, and to build vocabulary. Ideal support at school and home for GCSEs and Controlled Assessments.

Oxford Children's Rhyming Words is full of rhyming words, illustrations and poems. Creative writing, poetry, raps and lyrics are easy with the words in one place. Includes the words children need to spell at school and poems by John Foster and quirky illustrations inspire young writers to get started. An index to make finding words quick and easy.

An authoritative and up-to-date thesaurus, containing 140,000 alternative and opposite words, and a new Wordfinder centre section for vocabulary building and word games. Replaces ISBN 0-19-860461-0

This new dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential Spanish and English, and extra help with Spanish and English verbs and pronunciation, all in a compact and affordable format.

The Oxford Primary Thesaurus now has informative illustrations in a bold new contemporary design. It gives a broad vocabulary, thousands of synonyms and example sentences to help children make the best word choice. Writing tips and topic panels support children at the top of Primary school, and will enable them to enrich their language and writing.

The Oxford Children's Maths and Science Words includes more than 600 first science and maths words, as well as computing words, explained clearly and in alphabetical order. Matched to the curriculum, it is full of colourful illustrations and simple definitions to make learning new words fun and easy.

This new dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of essential Portuguese and English, and extra help with Portuguese and English verbs and pronunciation, all in a compact and affordable format.

A new edition of the popular Oxford Children's Thesaurus, ideal for homework with updated text and a new Creative Writing supplement.

Major new edition of the Oxford First Thesaurus in durable hardback format updated to include more related words, synonyms and antonyms to develop children's writing skills and support comprehension. The perfect resource for home and school to inspire children to use more creative and interesting vocabulary.

This special edition of the Oxford Learner's Spanish Dictionary has been specifically written for students learning Spanish in the Caribbean, from those who are just starting out, all the way up to those who are preparing for CSEC exam.

An important new edition of the bestselling thesaurus, with new words on contemporary topics such as technology, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic. Focused coverage of words, synonyms and antonyms help to improve writing skills. Spelling, grammar and punctuation support makes it perfect for progress from primary to secondary school.

This important new edition of the bestselling Oxford School Dictionary has contemporary and comprehensive vocabulary coverage. New words and up-to-date definitions support today's students with their language and spelling skills. Complete with example sentences and fascinating word origins, it helps with the transition from primary to secondary.

An important new edition of the bestselling mini thesaurus, with new words on contemporary topics such as technology, climate change and the Covid-19 pandemic. Focused coverage of words, synonyms and antonyms help to improve writing skills. Spelling, grammar and punctuation support makes it perfect for progress from primary to secondary school.

With a clear, colour layout, this is a dictionary with a difference. It covers all the grammar terms required for the KS3 curriculum, punctuation marks and when to use them, and spelling rules, tips and examples. New for this edition is a section on vocabulary and usage which provides perfect support for building language in context and improving writing skills in secondary school. Finally, there is an alphabetical dictionary of tricky spellings with hints and tipson how to avoid making common spelling mistakes. These words are chosen using analysis of real children's writing in the Oxford Children's Corpus. This unique dictionary is a valuable resource for exam preparation, including GCSEs. Online activities provide easy practice at home or can be usedas partof lesson starters and homework. For free downloadable activity worksheets, go to www.oxfordschooldictionaries.com.

This important new edition of the bestselling Oxford Primary Dictionary has been fully updated to reflect contemporary and relevant vocabulary for primary age children. There are new words and senses, which emerge from significant events in the world, such as vlog, AI, VR, carbon cycle and cloud. Definitions of familiar words, such as bubble, viral, tag and chat have been updated to include new senses for these words.All the entries have clear and simpledefinitions, with word classes and inflections given in full. Word origins are given in 'did you know?' notes and 'spelling alerts' flag tricky spellings. The updated and extended supplement has beenredesigned, it is more visually engaging and has been crafted to enable students to discover and understand vocabulary connections, and to learn about language. It contains spelling tips, grammar and punctuation information, word exploration, top tips and proofing skills to help children with their reading and writing. It is the ideal dictionary for boosting reading skills and building word power.Export only, not available to UK customers.

Ideal for students preparing for exams, this new edition of the Student's Dictionary has been fully updated and revised. The exam supplement targets key grammar, spelling and punctuation issues that can cost marks in exams and provides tips and support to understand command words and exam technique.

With over 45,000 entries, this is the ideal dictionary for both Greek and English students, travelers, and business people, It provides hundreds of idiomatic phrases and explanations of terms for which cultural differences prevent an exact translation. Includes Cypriot vocabulary and full coverage of common abbreviations, irregular plurals, irregular masculine and feminine nouns, and past tenses in Greek.