Newly revised and updated, a handy vocabulary builder and language resource features a single, easy-to-use alphabetical listing of more than twelve thousand main-entry terms with more than 400,000 synonyms and antonyms, along with examples of their use in sentences. 20,000 first printing.

Newly revised and updated, a handy, paperbound vocabularly builder and language resource features a single, easy-to-use alphabetical listing of main-entry terms with synonyms and antonyms, along with examples of their use in sentences. Original.

Provides over three hundred thousand entries, including one thousand new words, and a world atlas

A lively survey of the origins and history of Americans' most colorful words and expressions shows how changes in American culture have affected American English, traces the newest words entering the language, and features 450 photographs and illustrations. UP. (view table of contents)

This revised reference contains more than one thousand new words and meanings, a new thirty-two-page full-color world atlas, pronunciation and dialect notes, metric equivalents, and many other features. 20,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo.

Product Description: An authoritative, comprehensive and easy-to-use thesaurus that is favored by writers and students alike. Contains more than 11,000 comprehensive main-entry word lists.

A quick-access thesaurus offers an alphabetical format for more than eleven thousand entries, a wide range of synonyms and antonyms, sample sentences for every main entry, informal and slang words, and other valuable features. Reissue.

Product Description: What did the Founding Fathers mean when they wrote the Constitution? What did the right to keep and bear arms or an establishment of religion or the republican form of government mean to the founders? Obviously, as enlightened men of the late eighteenth century, they were familiar with a host of ideas and concepts drawn from ancient political theory as well as contemporary political pamphleteers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A dictionary for intermediate and junior-high students reflecting current American usage

An illustrated survey of the origins, evolutions, and meanings of thousands of phrases and expressions unique to American English adds up to an entertaining, reliable history of modern American idioms and speech

A unique, compact supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary presents all entries in a distinctly American way, including spelling, pronunciation, usage, and slang, and establishes a standard of American English speech. Reissue.

Historical information and entertaining illustrations of the vagaries of the American language supplement this detailed etymology of words and phrases native to the United States

Historical information and entertaining illustrations of the vagaries of the American language supplement this detailed etymology of words and phrases native to the United States

A student's guide to the usage is included in a dictionary designed for classroom and reference