Webster's New World Dictionary and Thesaurus [antikvár]

FOREWORD Webster's New World Dictionary and Thesaurus was first published in 1996 and quickly proved an immensely useful language reference work for people from all walks of life — students, office professionals, in fact, anyone needing a concise, up-to-date dictionary combined with a full-length thesaurus in a single volume. The dictionary portion of this Second Edition draws on our flagship Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, published in 1999. That work, updated annually, provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of the newest terms entering our vocabulary. For this derived work, more than 3,000 new entries have been added. Specially commissioned fonts have been used to improve page clarity and readability. The thesaurus section derives from Charlton Laird's Webster's New World Thesaurus, first published in 1971 and comprehensively updated several times since then. Thesaurus entries in the previous edition have been thoroughly reviewed and augmented. Readers who found the previous work a useful reference guide to the English language will appreciate an important innovation in the Second Edition: the inclusion of biographical and geographical entries. These entries fall conveniently within the single alphabetical listing, making it unnecessary for a user to consult separate appendixes to find them. Finally, extensive reference tables are incorporated in the back of the book. We recommend a careful reading of the two sections of the Guide to the Use of This Book, which begins on the following page. It gives a clear explanation of how to access the wealth of information stored within the dictionary and thesaurus entries. The Second Edition is the ideal portable reference work for our time. Every entry demonstrates the expertise of Webster's New World's staff of lexicographers, with their combined 150 years of experience in editing dictionaries and thesauruses. Michael Agnes Editor in Chief