|
|
Paperback Oxford English Dictionary
by: Oxford Dictionaries
|
|
List Price: £7.99Amazon.co.uk's Price: £5.59 You Save: £2.40 (30%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Third Party Price (New): £3.99
Availability: See "more info"
Average Rating: 
|
|
|
| Customer Reviews |
Rating: - 10 Year olds love it
I bought it for our kids as a reference book. They sit and read it! The only thing is, it doesn't have the rude words in I remember looking up up as a child.
Also has handy 'usage' boxes which gives direction on how some words cam be used.
Well worth getting in my opinion.
Rating: - Portable, handy, detailed.
This is the first dictionary I reach for if I want to find a definition of a word. It's also the first book I reach for if I want information on a famous person, or need to know where a particular place is.
In short, it's a dictionary and encyclopedia in one very handy size.
Plus points:
> it's easy to find any of the 120,00 definitions: the letter markers are visible from the outside.
> includes a thorough mid-section on famous people and places
> plentiful ... Read More
Rating: - A favourable lexicon for the parsimonious consumer
A compendium of 120,000 definitions advances itself as an uncommonly intimidating treatise but, lo, I garnered the tenacity to venture forth on an arduous quest of nigh incomprehensible magnitude. My pursuits of rhetorical erudition were both prolonged and tortuous. Indeed, I must yield that the whimsy of surrender infrequently manifested itself as a courtesan of nectareous temptation. Fortuitously, my resolve was but consolidated when I observed a distention in the radius of my parlance and the tender allure ... Read More
|
Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780198614241
ISBN: 0198614241
Label: OUP Oxford
Manufacturer: OUP Oxford
Number Of Pages: 898
Publication Date: June 01, 2006
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Sales Rank: 1340
Studio: OUP Oxford
|
Related Items:
|
|
|
|
