Choosing a pocket Spanish dictionary?

I’ve already got an authoritative on the bookshelf, it’s not very heavy but rather inconvenient to carry around, so I’d like to get an intermediate level pocket dictionary. The edition of “Spanish-English & English-Spanish” (including the differences between Castilian & Latin American) would be much preferred. Do you have any suggestions for the following [...]

The New Oxford American Dictionary

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Produced by Oxford's American Dictionaries Program, and drawing on the expertise of scores of American scholars and advisors, The New Oxford American Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this country.Here is the most accurate and richly descriptive picture of American English ever offered in any dictionary. Oxford's Americ[...]

Concise Oxford English Dictionary: 11th Edition Revised 2008

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Now in print through its various editions for almost a century, the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is one of the most popular choices in Oxford's renowned dictionary line, selected by decades of users for its up-to-date and authoritative coverage of the English language. This revised eleventh edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary [...]

Collins dictionary vs. Oxford dictionary. Which is better? Plz give some opinions?

Give me some opinions on Franklin electronic Collins dictionary vs Seiko electronic Oxford dictionary.
u all say its oxford but oxford has only 250000 words and collins has 500000 words with example sentences ( electronic dictionaries). Both of them are of the same price.

Is there any work in Arabic similar to the Oxford English Dictionary?

The OED is a 22 volume historical dictionary. It includes the etymology of the word, the history of usage of the word, such as when it was first introduced to the language, its roots, all the meanings the it has ever had, and several quotations from literary sources. Oh and it also includes the meaning [...]

Britain-based vs. American-based dictionary..?

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English is my second language. I am now in North America and would stay here for long. So far, I have been using “Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary”. I found this dictionary quite good. I just realized that the pronounciation keys and usage etc. in this dictionary would be Britain-based, whereas what I need is some [...]

Concise Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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Oxford University Press, in association with Paravia (one of Italy's foremost publishers), recently published the outstanding Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary. Now comes the Concise Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary, drawn from the landmark unabridged dictionary. Containing over 175,000 words and phrases and more than 290,000 translations, the Con[...]

Oxford Hachette French Dictionary: Book and CD-ROM package

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Acclaimed by language professionals the world over, the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary leads the way in modern bilingual lexicography and this special combined book and CD-ROM set allows you to obtain the maximum benefits from the text. The first ever French dictionary to be entirely compiled based on the statistical evidence of vast electronic [...]

The Oxford Spanish Dictionary: Second edition revised with supplements

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A complete Spanish dictionary, presenting the English-speaker with thousands of words, phrases and examples from the Spanish language, taken from the Bank of Spanish. Includes coverage of 24 regional versions of Spanish, as well as helpful in-text boxes which offer clarifying information. Covers the general, scientific, literary, and technical term[...]