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Webster's New World College Dictionary - Plain-Edged: The Definitive Guide American English, Internationally Renowned for Clarity, Precision and Ease of Use (Webster's New World) | 
| Creators: Webster's New World Editors, David B. Guralnik, Victoria Neufeldt
Publisher: MacMillan Reference Books
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $12.50
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1608579
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3 Updated
Pages: 1588
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8 x 2.3
ISBN: 0028616758
Dewey Decimal Number: 423
EAN: 9780028616759
ASIN: 0028616758
Publication Date: October 1997
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Is "legislator" pronounced with an "er" sound at the end or an "or"? Is the Jewish festival of lights spelled "Chanukah," "Hanuka," or "Hanukkah"? With Webster's New World College Dictionary, which promises to describe rather than prescribe, you can take your pick. The dictionary includes more than 150,000 entries, including brief biographical and geographical notes and useful drawings and diagrams (depictions of four kinds of buoys, for example). The guide to pronunciation and symbols is given on every other page, handy for those who don't like to refer to the inside cover each time they forget how to pronounce the sound of the schwa (of course, the guides on the inside and front covers are more extensive). Starred words refer to Americanisms, which number more than 11,000, such as "hornswoggle" and "Hopi" and "kitchenette." The definitions themselves are clear and simple and seldom have you scurrying to another page for a definition of the definition. Easy to use and understand, Webster's New World College Dictionary is a fine addition to any high school or college student's desk set. --Rebecca A. Staffel
Product Description
Newly updated to reflect the changes in our language and in our social, cultural, political, and scientific worlds, "Webster's New World College Dictionary" is the official choice of most major newspapers. New uses and meanings have been added to many existing definitions and an all-new reference section of Charts & Tables has been added for instant access to geographical, historical, and other encyclopedic references. 700 line drawings.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Nice Dictionary but.. October 22, 2008
Priscilla M. Mendez (Phila, PA)
I had to get a hard back dictionary for my Eng 101 class for a vocabulary project and found that the definitions weren't lengthy enough for complete understanding. I got tired of looking up synonyms, but the CD-ROM is very useful.
Dictionary September 29, 2008
Doreen Chrisco (St. Louis, MO USA)
Dictionary in very good shape and received promptly. For the future you may want to indicate edition number.
Watch out on this item September 3, 2008
Timothy L. Dufour (Central PA)
I purchased this dictionary from Caiman and there is supposed to be a CD with it. They never sent it to me and when I complained they asked me to send it back. I want the CD not a refund. It is a nice dictionary and I would love to have the computer version for my laptop.
 Very nice dictionary August 23, 2008
Robert Severs
This is a fine resource item at a very good price. Easy on the eyes too.
very good at school July 20, 2008
Bruno Osimo (Milan, Italy)
I've been using it for nearly ten years at school (I teach English-Italian translation at the university), and it's the most frequent advice that I give my students. The CD it contains is estremely comfortable and well done, you can upload it once and then use it as much as you want, on more than one computer, you don't have to keep it in to make it work. By the way, the person who wrote the worst review, as you can notice, doesn't have much literacy in English language.
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