Based on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition

·More than 75000 clear and precise definitions

·2000 new words

·Guide to irregular English verbs and common verb collocations for English-language learners

·Special new sections include:

Confused and Misused Words

English Root Words

Basic English Grammar

Handbook of Style

Overview of the Internet

This new edition of The Merriam-WebsterDictionary is the sixth in a line of Merriam-Webster paperback dictionaries which began in 1947. It is based on and preserves the best aspects of preceding editions, but it also offers much that is new, drawing specifically on Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Eleventh Edition. Every entry and every section has been reexamined and revised in light of the most current information available. Definitions have been based on examples of actual use found in the Merriam-Webster citation files, which now contain more than 15000000 examples of English words in context from a ,vide range of printed sources, and more than 75 million words available through electronic searching. The editors of this book have created it with the same careful, serious attention that has gone into every Merriam-Webster dictionary.

Preface

Explanatory Notes

Abbreviations in This Work

Pronunciation Symbols

A Dictionary, of the English Language

Foreign Words & Phrases

Biographical Names

Geographical Names

Brief History of English

English Word Roots

Confused an d Misused Words

Guide to Common Verb Collocations

Irregular English Verbs

Basic English Grammar

Handbook of Style

Documentation of Sources

Signs and Symbols

An Overview of the Internet