OXFORD CONCISE AMERICAN DICTIONARY

This dictionary packs an amount of information into a handy book. Based on the groundbreaking flagship dictionary of Oxford's US Dictionaries program, the 'Oxford American dictionary', this edition includes more than 180,000 entries and definitions,complete with pronunciations, parts of speech, syllabification, inflected forms, and derivatives. The dictionary includes Usage Notes that give helpful information on correct English; hundreds of Word Histories that provide fascinating background onthe lives of words; more than 300 carefully chosen illustrations; and a handy Ready Reference section with information about weights and measures, chemical elements, U.S. states and presidents, punctuation, frequently misspelled words