Concise English Dictionary (Wordsworth Reference Series)

Highly acclaimed for its competitive edge on other editions of its kind, the Wordsworth Concise English Dictionary is an authorative, user friendly and up-to-date lexicon of the world's most widely used language.
It reflects the usage not just of the UK and the USA but also of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and all those parts of the world where English is the first language. The pefect reference book for everyday use, it provides definitions written in clear, jargon-free language readily accessible to every level of reader, and care has been taken to include coverage of current scientific and technical terminology, as well as literary and colloquial words and phrases. Impressively comprehensive, this dictionary contains 121,000 references and over 156,000 definitions. No citizen of the world today can afford to be without a dictionary of this quality.