Oxford Learner's Dictionary

by D.N. Stavropoulos and A.S. Hornby

Book Overview

Provides information about the use of words as well as their meanings. There are numerous example sentences and phrases. It contains coverage of idioms and colloquial expressions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0194311996
• ISBN13: 9780194311991
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 1032 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent dictionary - Good size!

Stavropoulos' dictionaries are the best available for modern demotic Greek, and the product of a truly intimate knowledge of both Greek and English. It is a great shame, therefore, that Oxford University Press has produced the English-Greek volume in a significantly smaller size than its Greek-English companion, which is far more comfortable to use. The result is that the English-Greek edition, hard-bound and at about 900 pages thick, is bulky and awkward to handle, and simply does not stand on the bookshelf as a companion to the Greek-English edition. I sincerely hope, however, that OUP do not seek to rectify the situation by making the Greek-English as uncomfortably small in size as its English-Greek companion.

Review by Ken Fassman is misleading.

Please note that this book is clearly titled as being a Greek-English dictionary, which means that you'll only find Greek words translated into English. This allows more Greek words to be listed. If you want a dictionary that works both ways, then you'll need to obtain a Greek-English/English-Greek dictionary, also referred to sometimes as English-Greek-English. There are also English-Greek dictionaries, which only translate English words into Greek...Well, you get the idea. This particular resource is exactly what it says it is, and it's one of the best. I'm actually purchasing a second copy for a friend.

True to Greek and English. By far the best available.

If you could pick out the appropriate lexical item out of an out-of-context list offered next to a dictionary entry you wouldn't be learning the language, you'd be speaking it! Stavropoulos was well aware of that...

By far the best Greek-English dictionary of its kind!

This dictionary is a students dream in learning the greek language. It contains the most accurate vocabulary of modern greek and it also includes words not found in other greek dictionaries. It has both the modern spoken greek and dialect and slang words used in Greece today. Being of Greek decent myself, this lexicon is by far the best dictionary of its kind, hands down. It's accuracy in definitions of the greek text is on the money and woiuld help any student of greek excel in conversational as well as grammatical context. I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to master the Greek language.