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.

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.

The American Heritage Desk Dictionary

The American Heritage Desk Dictionary
Author: Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher: Collins Reference
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: REFERENCE
ISBN: 9780547708133

A brand new edition of this outstanding resource, fully revised, with hundreds of new words, abundant example sentences, helpful usage notes, and photographs.

The American Heritage Children's Dictionary

The American Heritage Children's Dictionary
Author: Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher: Clarion Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781328787354

A dictionary for the elementary school student with introductory explanatory material.

The American Heritage Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus

The American Heritage Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 872
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Combining in a single volume an up-to-date dictionary and a thesaurus, this book offers readers a convenient way to examine dictionary entries and research corresponding synonyms at the same time. The split-page design displays full dictionary entries on the upper portion of each page and full thesaurus entries on the bottom portion, which makes finding and understanding the right word easier than ever. The thesaurus section of the page is screened to highlight the dual nature of the book, providing quick access to the synonyms that relate to the dictionary entries above. The dictionary contains 70,000 entries, including extensive coverage of new words and meanings. The thesaurus contains 150,000 synonyms that are alphabetically arranged on each page to correlate with the dictionary entries on the same page. With its unique format and user-friendly features, The American Heritage(R) Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus is a convenient and invaluable resource on words.

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs

McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Idoms and Phrasal Verbs
Author: Richard A. Spears
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 1100
Release: 2006-02-03
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 0071486852

Learn the language of Nebraska . . .and 49 other states With more entries than any other reference of its kind,McGraw-Hill’s Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs shows you how American English is spoken today. You will find commonly used phrasal verbs, idiomatic expressions, proverbial expressions, and clichés. The dictionary contains more than 24,000 entries, each defined and followed by one or two example sentences. It also includes a Phrase-Finder Index with more than 60,000 entries.

The Oxford American College Dictionary

The Oxford American College Dictionary
Author:
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Total Pages: 1704
Release: 2002
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

The Oxford American College Dictionaryis completely new, based on the New Oxford American Dictionary, which was published in October 2001. Drawing on Oxford's unparalleled language resources, including a 200-million-word database, this college dictionary contains: * more than 175,000 entries and more than 1000 illustrations, including line drawings, photographs and maps * boxed quotes from famous writers, demonstrating word usage and style * country guides-shaded boxes highlighting the most important geographical information on more than 180 countries-with maps * "core sense" organization of definitions, a brand-new and utterly sensible plan in which subordinate definitions flow logically from primary ones, and the most important usage of the word comes first * thumb index tabs for easy searching

The American Heritage Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus

The American Heritage Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus
Author: Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher: Collins Reference
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780544176188

Collects definitions and synonyms of commonly used words, offering them in a format that presents both types of information for each word on the same page.