Oxford Concise School Dictionary - Hardcover

Features cover with annotated extract to give guidance on level, suitability, and content with new text for the market-leading school dictionary range.

* 40,000 words and phrases

* Comprehensive coverage of new words eg. air bag, alternative energy

* Information boxes give word families, usage, langauge and grammar notes

* Word origins give history of language

* Pronunciation guides help with unusual words eg. depot (say dep-oh), conscientious (say kon-she-en-shus)

* Idiomatic phrases and expressions fully defined

* Labels (formal/informal, in science fiction, in grammar) encourage accurate use of language

* Up-to-date example sentences and phrases show how words are used in context

* No confusing abbreviations

* Introduction shows how to use the dictionary

* Appendices include weights and measures and countries and peoples list