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This dictionary contains 28,000 headword entries and many word origins. There are 100 notes on correct English usage, grammar, and words that are easily confused. It should provide secondary school students with a simple word reference, and is an abridged edition of "The Oxford School Dictionary".

The most authoritative, up-to-date, and easy-to-use compact dictionary available, the Oxford Minidictionary is now completely revised and expanded. The Third Edition offers over 40,000 entries and more than 45,000 definitions, and includes many new words and phrases such as Tessa, autogenic, ninja, and couch potato. Pronunciation guidance is provided for difficult words, and each page is clear and easy-to-read, with a minimum of abbreviations and special symbols. In addition, the Oxford Minidictionary contains a new supplement for word-game players--consisting of two-letter words, words with a "q" not followed by a "u," and words beginning with "x"--that is especially useful for crossword puzzles and Scrabble games. Helpful appendices--which include notes on correct English usage and punctuation, and lists of countries, chemical elements, and metric units--make the new edition of this popular reference source more handy and useful than ever.

Written for students at school and at home, this dictionary is trialled and tested in schools, and contains 40,000 words and phrases.

Compact and easy to use, this school's dictionary provides guidance on the spelling, pronunciation and meaning of over 35,000 words. Notes on the origins of words and example sentences are used to reinforce usage. Appendices list prefixes and suffixes, foreign words and phrases and much more.

This dictionary is specifically designed for students in the upper forms of secondary schools or in colleges. It is especially valuable for those following GCSE and more advanced courses.

This is a new all-in-one reference book, providing within a single volume a comprehensive dictioanry of current English and all the information of a concise world encyclopedia. It contains over 200,000 dictionary definitions and 10,000 encyclopedic entries; chronology of world events; 16 pages of color maps and 100 pages of extra encyclopedic information

Aimed specifically at school students, this dictionary contains 34,000 entries along with guidance on pronunciation and over 100 notes on usage and grammar. It also contains appendices on foreign words and phrases, prefixes and suffixes, countries and people, and weights and measures.