Status
Available
Call number
Publication
Random House (2nd Edition)
Pages
2478
Description
Contains over 315,000 entries with over 50,000 new words and 75,000 new meanings.
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1966
Physical description
2478 p.; 12.4 inches
ISBN
0394500504 / 9780394500508
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LibraryThing member IreneF
This is the dictionary I use the most, even though it's useless for any coinage of the past forty--odd years. (We've got the internet for that.) It's got most of the words I look up; the collegiate Webster's is too little, and the really big Webster's is too huge. The old miniaturized OED is
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awkward, and the internet isn't always convenient. Besides, you can't browse Answers.com like you can an actual dictionary. Show Less
LibraryThing member Magadri
This is definitely my go-to dictionary. This book has nearly every word that I've ever looked up in it. Even though it is very big and bulky (which it would kind of have to be), it is definitely worth owning. As another reviewer mentioned, it does not have a lot of current slang or new terms in it,
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but those are easily looked up on the internet. For an actual hard copy dictionary though, this one is a great one. Show Less
LibraryThing member mykl-s
-even with the internet, life would be barren and very confusing without an unabridged dictionary
Call number
ENG A.101