Webster's New world college dictionary / [editors of Webster's New World College Dictionaries].
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TextPublisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2016]Edition: Newly updated edition; Fifth editionDescription: xxiv, 1703 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- 9780544598225 (hardcover)
- 0544598229 (hardcover)
- New world college dictionary
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Newly updated for 2016, Webster's New World College Dictionary is the most comprehensive, up-to-date college dictionary available.
Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fifth Edition , presents the very best a college dictionary can offer, with all the user-friendly qualities that have distinguished the Webster's New World name for decades. It is a favorite of newsrooms and copyeditors nationwide, and it is the official dictionary of The Associated Press Stylebook and the New York Times . Webster's New World College Dictionary is collaborating with The Associated Press Stylebook Online to offer a combined service. Please see www.apstylebook.com for details.
This dictionary features a clear and accessible defining style, abundant synonym notes, full-page tables and charts, hundreds of drawings that complement the definitions, and authoritative guidance on usage and style points. It also includes extensive coverage of Americanisms (words, phrases, and senses coined by an American or first used in the United States), all 12,000 of which are specially identified.
For this 2016 edition, the editors have made hundreds of revisions and additions. New words include co-working , emoji , jizya , lambic , and vape . Webster's New World College Dictionary is the perfect dictionary for use at school, at the office, or at home.
Webster's new world college dictionary, fifth edition, presents a clear and accessible defining style, abundant synonym notes, full-page tables and charts, hundreds of drawings that complement the definitions and authoritative guidance on usage and style points plus it has added more than 4,700 entries and senses have been added, including terms from the areas of arts and sports, science and medicine, computers and the Internet, food, business, politics, and law. Tens of thousands of revisions have been made to existing senses, to bring them up-to-date and to reflect current usage.