The Pocket Oxford American Dictionary of Current English

by Oxford Dictionaries

Book Overview

Based on a vast database of over two hundred million words, the Oxford Pocket American Dictionary of Current English offers superb coverage of American English. Oxford's U.S. Dictionaries Program has taken a state-of-the-art approach to the design of reference works, focusing on the words users most commonly encounter, and omitting those rarely used. All Oxford American dictionaries use an easy-to-use respelling system to show how entries are pronounced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195150821
• ISBN13: 9780195150827
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 8.0" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Great Resource!

The Oxford Dictionary (2002) is simply a great resource. And, if you are like me and have forgotten how to spell numerous words over the past several decades, this dictionary is nothing short of a life-saver. It is jam-packed with words that are commonly, and not so commonly, used. Can't say enough about this great resource.

No problems

It was bigger than I expected - when it said pocket size - I expected that size - but it is the size of a small dictionary. Other than that it was wonderful

Great but not Pocket Size

It's an excellent and invaluable resource that I suggest to all of the students in my high school classes. I recommend it to everyone who asks me about dictionaries. It's only pocket size if you have enormous pockets.

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A CONCISE YET EXTENSIVE REFERENCE

Exhaustively researched and holding some 175,000 precise definitions and entries, The Oxford American Dictionary is an appropriate resource for home, office, and dorm room. Known for its au currant listings, Oxford is always in the process of gauging growth and change in our language. Just think of the words that the internet has added to our vocabularies - to say nothing of scientific research and rap! Each entry includes a pronunciation guide, grammatical identity, and syllabication. Also found are inflected forms, variant spellings, and derivatives. Biographical entries begin with Hank Aaron and end with Zoroaster, while Geographical entries range from Aachen (a town in West Germany) to Zurich. Handy tables offer metric weights and measures as well as conversion from metric to standard measurements. Chemical elements are listed as well as countries of the world. Want to know who our 12th president was? You'll find it here. Oxford boasts more than 100 staff lexicographers plus hundreds of readers and researchers. All that expertise shows in this concise yet extensive dictionary. - Gail Cooke