Stuart Berg Flexner Books

With fifty years of dictionary publishing experience, this unabridged dictionary serves as the most definitive single-volume reference for the English language. It combines a comprehensive traditional study of the language with the latest developments, utilizing cutting-edge technology to ensure timely updates. The innovative Living Dictionary Database allows for immediate online editing, enabling the addition of vital new vocabulary as it emerges. This dictionary caters to a diverse audience, including students, scholars, professional writers, businesspeople, and word enthusiasts. It features standard and specialized vocabulary, as well as up-to-date factual and encyclopedic information, making it a unique reference for offices, schools, and families. Key features include a new eight-page section with over 1,000 important new words, more than 315,000 entries, 1,500 updated definitions, and 2,400 illustrations. It provides scholarly etymologies, entries for notable people and places, and reflects recent political and geographical changes. Additionally, it includes example phrases, metric equivalents, endangered species identification, and comprehensive supplementary notes addressing usage, pronunciation, and regional variations. This edition maintains extensive coverage of modern American English while being reformatted for ease of use, ensuring it remains the most current and authoritative single-volume dictionary availabl

Provides over three hundred thousand entries, including one thousand new words, and a world atlas

Not a tome, not an encyclopedia, the Oxford American Dictionary is an ingeniously crafted tool for all who use American English. The goal has been to simplify: no obscure pronunciation symbols, no unneeded variant spellings or pronunciation, no filled material. This dictionary is compact, easy to handle, easy to use

More than 2000 brand-new slang terms and familiar expressions that have acquired new meanings appear in the supplement. Altogether the volume contains more than 22,000 definitions.

Historical information and entertaining illustrations of the vagaries of the American language supplement this detailed etymology of words and phrases native to the United States

AMERICAN SLANG - The highly colored, many-flavored words and expressions of every sector of our national life--the beat generation, Madison Avenue, the underworld, prizefighters, teenyboppers, addicts, astronauts, soda jerks, and hobos. Slang is the popular expression of many sub-groups--some of which are the Army, Navy & Merchant Marine, immigrants, hobos & tramps, railroad workers, baseball players & fans, show business workers, high school students & general teenagers, college students, financial district employees, jazz musicians & fans, narcotic addicts, & the underworld. Each group's unique words are listed and defined amongst thousands of definitions of American Slang!

Over 11,000 main-entry words in alphabetical order recommended for writers, speakers, students, and business people.

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