Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

Merriam-Webster, Inc

Merriam-Webster, 1993 - Reference - 1597 pages

Prepared by a distinguished staff of scholars who rely on a bank of close to 15 million citations documenting word usage, this invaluable resource is a treasury of essnetial information about English that includes 160,000 entries covering the most widely used words in the English vocabulary. "This remains the same great college-level desk dictionary that so many of us grew up with and continue to depend on".--Reference & Research Book News.

Contents

• Preface: 6
• The English Language in the Dictionary: 23
• Abbreviations in This Work: 36
• Abbreviations and Symbols for Chemical Elements: 1379
• Foreign Words and Phrases: 1390
• Geographical Names: 1441
• A Handbook of Style: 1535

Bibliographic information

• Title: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary; A Merriam-Webster; A genuine Merriam-Webster
• Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
• Edition: 10, illustrated
• Publisher: Merriam-Webster, 1993
• ISBN: 0877797102, 9780877797104
• Length: 1597 pages
• Subjects: Reference / Dictionaries