Webster's New World College Dictionary and Thesaurus - Softcover

Reseña del editor

THE DICTIONARY

• Completely revised and updated with 163,000 entries (over 7,000 new for this edition)
• Over 850 drawings, photographs, and maps
• Thousands of geographical and biographical entries
• Full-color atlas of the world
• Page and text completely redesigned for even greater readability

THE THESAURUS

• The convenience of A-Z entries combined with a Roget-style thematic index.
• Thousands of synonym entries for useful word comparisons, and also includes antonyms
• Helpful example phrases, with more usage examples than in any other thesaurus
• Lists to help you find the right word fast such as Types of Automobiles and words ending in -phobia

THE CD-ROM SOFTWARE

• Includes both Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition and Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus
• Dictionary and thesaurus can be accessed from within a word processor, spreadsheet, or other Windows application
• Unique Screen-Scraper technology lets the user point to words in a document for instant definitions and synonyms
• Adds thousands of words into any spell checker's dictionary

Biografía del autor

The Editors of the Webster's New World Dictionaries are a team of professional lexicographers with advanced degrees in various scholarly fields. The editors familiarize themselves with the vocabulary in specific subject areas, collect materials on new developments and usage, and work with expert consultants to ensure that the content of our publications is as accurate and as up-to-date as possible.