Chambers Compact Dictionary
By Editors of Chambers (Editor)
(Chambers, Hardcover, 9780550100955, 992pp.)
Publication Date: June 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback, Paperback
Categories: Dictionaries - General
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The newest edition of the Chambers Compact Dictionary includes more than 170,000 entries and definitions and features an appealing design. Hundreds of usage notes throughout the text offer practical guidance on using English correctly and confidently. Lists and tables present useful supplemental information, such as common abbreviations. The expanded forty-eight-page World Reference section, now in full color, includes thousands of facts and figures about the world today, along with detailed maps illustrating both geographic and social features.
This internationally renowned reference publisher continues its celebrated tradition of excellence into the present day with such informative and authoritative works as the Chambers Crossword Dictionary, Chambers Encyclopedia, Chambers Biographical Dictionary and the all-new Chambers Dictionary of Quotations.
Chambers is based in Edinburgh, as it always has been, and employs editors with a wide range of skills on dictionaries and other titles for a variety of users, including students and teachers of English as a foreign or second language. As well as the core business of publishing dictionaries and thesauruses, Chambers also publishes a range of titles on grammar and usage, single-volume reference titles on science, history, biography and quotations, as well as titles for Scrabble® and crosswords.
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