As Oxford's flagship American dictionary, the New Oxford American
Dictionary sets the standard of excellence for lexicography in this
country. With more than 350,000 words, phrases, and senses,
hundreds of explanatory notes, and more than a thousand
illustrations, this dictionary provides the most comprehensive and
accurate coverage of American English available.
The dictionary draws on the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus
and the unrivaled citation files of the world-renowned Oxford
English Dictionary to provide the most accurate and richly
descriptive picture of American English ever offered in any
dictionary. The Third Edition offers a thoroughly updated text,
with revisions throughout and approximately 2,000 new words,
phrases, and meanings. Many new words relate to fast-moving areas
such as computing, technology, current affairs, and ecology, while
others have recently entered the popular lexicon. Usage notes have
been updated in light of the most recent Corpus evidence, and a
completely new in-text feature on Word Trends charts usage for
rapidly changing words and phrases such as carbon, mobile, or
tweet. In addition, the volume has an attractive, modern new text
design that makes entries easier to read and find.
One of the hallmarks of the New Oxford American Dictionary is the
way it reflects the living language. Unlike in more traditional
dictionaries, where meanings are ordered chronologically according
to the history of the language, each entry plainly shows the
principal meaning or meanings of the word, organized by importance
in today's English. Thus readers can be confident that the first
definition they see is the one most likely to be used by people
today, and is not a sense that has been obsolete for two centuries.
Offering clear, authoritative, and precise information, with the
in-depth and up-to-date coverage that users need and expect, the
New Oxford American Dictionary is the benchmark by which all other
American dictionaries are measured.
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