The American Heritage Dictionary

The American Heritage Dictionary
Author: Houghton Mifflin Company
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001
Genre: Americanisms
ISBN: 9780385335768

Contains over seventy thousand entries including 1,000 new words and their meanings.

The American Heritage Dictionary Define-A-Thon For The High Schoolgraduate

The American Heritage Dictionary Define-A-Thon For The High Schoolgraduate
Author: Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2007-08-03
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 9780547350202

The American Heritage Dictionary Define-a-Thon for the High School Graduate offers an entertaining way to help high school students and graduates become vocabulary masters. Written by the editors of the American Heritage dictionaries, this book will encourage students and parents alike to energize their word power. The book has two parts—a challenge section and an answers section. Each question in the challenge section consists of a definition along with four candidate words, of which only one is correct. The answers section gives the correct answer and shows that word in an example sentence. It also provides word histories and quotations by respected authors. All the candidate words are defined, and there is a separate list of the correct answers for quick look-up. The American Heritage Dictionary Define-a-Thon for the High School Graduate offers a fun and easy way for anyone who enjoys language to get on good terms with some useful new words and to appreciate the importance of a strong vocabulary.

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots

The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo-European Roots
Author: Calvert Watkins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2000
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780618082506

Discusses the nature, origins, and development of language and lists the meanings and associated word for more than thirteen thousand Indo-European root words.

The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms

The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms
Author: David Logan Scott
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Business
ISBN: 9780618755257

The American Heritage Dictionary of Business Terms covers the entire spectrum of business terminology. In clear language it defines over 6,000 terms drawn from the areas of investing, finance, marketing, law, real estate, management, economics, accounting, insurance, and international business. Entries range from investment fundamentals (price-earnings ratio, split, yield) to the lexicon of real estate (amortization, buy down, wraparound mortgage) to the terminology of contemporary finance (CDO, short sale, tranche). More than 100 key terms, such as antitrust, bailout, and subprime loan, are enhanced by real-world case studies that bring the concept to life. In addition, scores of tips from expert professionals offer advice on topics ranging from renegotiating a mortgage to reducing the estate tax.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Editors Of The American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 2074
Release: 2006
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780618701735

Contains entries for over 10,000 new words reflecting the explosion of computer and Internet technology as well as changes in popular culture and slang.

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
Author: American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Americanisms
ISBN: 9780544454453

This new edition offers newly updated terms, and provides the latest research on word origins and meanings, with guidelines on accurate usage.

The American Heritage Dictionary, Fifth Edition

The American Heritage Dictionary, Fifth Edition
Author: Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Americanisms
ISBN: 9780547624846

Based on the authoritative American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, the Office Edition has been completely updated; every single entry has been reviewed and revised as necessary. Its thousands of new words and senses, such as antiquark, earbud, and the verb sense of friend, reflect recent developments in the sciences, technology, and popular culture. Hundreds of photographs and drawings enhance the text, and several tables such as the periodic table of the elements and a table of units of measurement provide helpful data in a useful visual format. Forming the heart of the dictionary, however, are its more than 70,000 entry words, whose clear, straightforward definitions--supplemented by pronunciations, inflections of irregular verbs and plural nouns, and selected etymologies--make the Office Edition of the American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition, an essential reference for the office, school, or home.

Curious George's Dictionary

Curious George's Dictionary
Author: The Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2008-08-27
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0547350333

Curious George gets curious about words in this illustrated dictionary designed for children from preschool through kindergarten. In an illustrated introduction to this unique dictionary, Curious George learns how to look up words before embarking on an educational adventure through a vocabulary list chosen specifically for children ages four to six. The dictionary itself presents approximately 600 words, with six words to a page. Each entry is illustrated with a full-color drawing, and more than half of the illustrations include a sample sentence that puts the word in context. At the end of the book, eight full-page features present groups of thematically related words such as colors, shapes, and numbers.