The Oxford Paperback Dictionary, the most up-to-date and easy-to-use paperback dictionary available, now also includes encyclopaedic information. This revised, updated, and expanded edition features:
• 55,000 entries and 74,000 definitions
• Over 4,000 entries on people, places, and institutions, from Yasser Arafat to Mother Teresa to Lech Walesa, Laura Ashley to Woolworth, Louis Armstrong to William Walton, Ali to Torvill and Dean, Action Directe to Swapo: the OPD is the only paperback dictionary with this feature
• Up-to-date vocabulary including Big Bang, community charge, fibre optics, genetic finger-printing, glasnost, Mexican wave, palimony, perestroika, video nasty, and yuppie
• Hundreds of notes on usage, grammatical points, origin of words, and words that are easily confused
• Helpful examples showing words in use'
• Difficult pronunciations shown in an easy-to-use system of respelling
• Attractive, uncluttered page, with a minimum of abbreviations and symbols
• Names of countries and capital cities, counties of the UK, States of the USA and Australia, Provinces of Canada, major mountains, rivers, seas, and constellations
• An appendix showing countries of the world with the current head of government of each: no other paperback dictionary has this feature