Student's English Dictionary

The average dictionary is not for browsing. This dictionary, however, is no average dictionary. It has all the usual features, of course, but it also contains elements from other kinds of word-book such as the thesaurus, the usage guide, the teaching lexicon, and the historical survey. What makes this book so different is the way explanatory panels are used throughout the work - panels which present a point of usage, the history of a word, an area of vocabulary or the nuances of a definition. When you look a word up, you get a bonus in the firm of a panel. It makes you stop and read on, learning more than you bargained for. It's a novel and interesting idea, and one which is bound to prove attractive both to mother-tongue users and to all students of English.