Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language [antikvár]

FOREWORDThis latest Paperback Edition of Webster's New World Dictionary is an expansion and updating of an earlier revision of the paperback dictionary that has been a best seller since it was first published in 1958. It is based upon and extracted from the materials prepared for Webster's New World Dictionary, Second College Edition. The more than 59,000 vocabulary entries in this revised edition include thousands of newer terms and newer senses of established terms not to be found in the first edition.The selection of vocabulary items has been made largely on the basis of frequency of occurrence within our vast citation file and from various word-count lists. Included in the single alphabetical listing of the dictionary are selected biographical and geographical entries, names from literature and mythology, and common abbreviations. The geographical entries include countries of the world, with area and population, major cities of the world, all cities of the United States with over 100,000 population, and major bodies of water, mountains, and the like.It has been the intent of the editors of this work to incorporate as much useful information as possible within the available space. As a consequence, in addition to the clear but brief definitions, properly separated and discriminated and, where necessary, identified as to level of usage, there will be found herein illustrative examples of usage to help clarify meanings, a large number of idiomatic expressions, affixes and combining forms, and other features not generally included in a paperback dictionary of this size. Among the unusual features are the etymologies enclosed in boldface brackets following the entry word. These little histories of the origin and development of words often help one to a clearer understanding of the current meanings.The pronunciations are recorded in a simplified but precise phonemic key, and variant pronunciations, if sufficiently widespread, are given, often in an abbreviated form. The key to pronunciation is printed at the bottom of every right-hand page for the convenience of the user.Another unusual feature of this paperback dictionary is the inclusion of pictorial illustrations, especially selected and designed to help amplify those definitions that benefit from such illustrations and to brighten the page. The type used is of a modern face in the largest practicable size to facilitate ease of reading.The members of the dictionary staff involved in preparing this dictionary are: Managing Editor, Samuel Solomon; Supervising Associate Editor, Clark C. Livensparger; Associate Editors, Christopher T. Hooli-han, Ruth K. Kent, Thomas Layman, Paul Murry, Andrew Sparks, Eleanor Rickey Stevens; Assistant Editors, Roslyn Block, Jonathan L. Goldman, Judith Clark, Assistants, Virginia C. Becker, Dorothy H. Benedict, Cynthia Sadonick, Angie West; Illustrator, Anita Rogoff; Proofreader, Shirley M. Miller.David B. Guralnik Editor in Chief