Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. D (1897)
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. O-Pf (1905)
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: D-E
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: Sir James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 830
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. F (1901)
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. C-Comm (1893)
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: part 1. H (1901)
Author: James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles
Author: Lesley Brown
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1916
Book Description
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is the most significant dictionary of the decade. Freshly abridged from the acclaimed Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it represents the ultimate authority on contemporary and historical English, next to the OED itself. Incorporating a wealth of newly researched material, it includes all the key features of the OED in just two volumes, making it the top-of-the-range Oxford dictionary for eveyday use. Both current and historical English are covered in its 220,000 entries, including such neologisms as dweeb,sellathon, masculist, and winterim. Its 500,000 definitions are illustrated with 87,000 quotations from 10,000 authors, each showing precisely how a word has been used over the centuries. New 'contributors' range from Stephen King to Keri Hulme, Doris Lessing to Seamus Heaney. Each entry provides a wealth of information, including history and meaning, pronunciation, entymology, definitions, varient spellings, irregular inflections, quotations, idiomatic phrases and combinations, and a precise record of a word's use. No other general dictionary can provide access to sucha comprehensive account of the English language. * All the key features of the OED in just two volumes * Covers English from 1700 to today * 220,000 entries and over 500,000 definitions * 87,000 illustrative quotations from 10,000 authors * Four million words of text * Thousands of rare words, as well as the very latest vocabulary * Up-to-date pronunciation systems * Generous coverage of English around the world
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1916
Book Description
The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is the most significant dictionary of the decade. Freshly abridged from the acclaimed Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, it represents the ultimate authority on contemporary and historical English, next to the OED itself. Incorporating a wealth of newly researched material, it includes all the key features of the OED in just two volumes, making it the top-of-the-range Oxford dictionary for eveyday use. Both current and historical English are covered in its 220,000 entries, including such neologisms as dweeb,sellathon, masculist, and winterim. Its 500,000 definitions are illustrated with 87,000 quotations from 10,000 authors, each showing precisely how a word has been used over the centuries. New 'contributors' range from Stephen King to Keri Hulme, Doris Lessing to Seamus Heaney. Each entry provides a wealth of information, including history and meaning, pronunciation, entymology, definitions, varient spellings, irregular inflections, quotations, idiomatic phrases and combinations, and a precise record of a word's use. No other general dictionary can provide access to sucha comprehensive account of the English language. * All the key features of the OED in just two volumes * Covers English from 1700 to today * 220,000 entries and over 500,000 definitions * 87,000 illustrative quotations from 10,000 authors * Four million words of text * Thousands of rare words, as well as the very latest vocabulary * Up-to-date pronunciation systems * Generous coverage of English around the world