Reader's Digest-Oxford Complete Wordfinder [antikvár]

PrefaceThe publication of the Reader's Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder is the culmination of a dynamic collaboration between Reader's Digest and Oxford University Press. It also marks the beginning of a new era in language reference books. This volume offers, for the first time in the United States, a thoroughly integrated presentation of entries from the two most widely used types of language reference books, the dictionary and the thesaurus. This vmi-fied approach, treating meanings and related words within the same entry, offers the user an abundance of information about words, and a far more thorough analysis of the lexical variety and nuances of the English language than is possible in a dictionary or thesaurus alone.Oxford's American dictionary staff drew on the unparalleled lexical resources of Oxford University Press, the world's most experienced and respected authority on English language and dictionaries. An international team of lexicographers, representing all major varieties of English(the United States and Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, and South Africa), have contributed to the entries contained herein, making this volume innovative in both presentation and content. No American dictionary or thesaurus to date has been able to offer so much of the richness of "World English" as the Reader's Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder. The result is an up-to-date and thoroughly reliable dictionary of American English, amply augmented by integrated thesaurus coverage, with a unique global perspective of English, the lingua franca of the late twentieth century and the new millennium.The editorial and production staff wish to acknowledge the sagacity and unflagging support of Linda Halvorson Morse, Editorial Director of the Trade Reference Department of Oxford University Press, as well as the astute guidance of Edmund H. Harvey, Jr., Senior Staff Editor of Reader's Digest.F.A.