Random House Webster's Handy American Dictionary, Second Edition: Second Edition

By Random House

Book Overview

The right word every time in a concise yet thorough hardcover dictionary, revised with hundreds of new words and updates. *A core vocabulary of over 60,000 entries, including new words such as chat... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517183676
• ISBN13: 9780517183670
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Gramercy Books
• Length: 1024 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.6" x 8.7" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Large Print Dictionary is excellent!

This book arrived in a timely manner and was exactly as anticipated. The print was large enough for a visually impaired person to read without being too cumbersome to handle.

Handy dictionary for people with impaired vision.

I like this dictionary because it is easy for me to read. It has 35,000 words including words newly adopted to today's society in America such as ICU, yahoo, yammer, yaws (a new disease) as well as unusual words. It also has a pronunciation key in the English sounds and non-English sounds.

such a fine little dictionary

My copy is nearly a year and a half old, and amazingly, looks "almost new." Of everything I own, it's the only item that gets abuse, and abuse it gets. It gets dropped, laid open with other books on top of it, etc. I use it constantly. I must. I'm a terrible speller. Rarely do I look up a word that's not included (and I look up some obscure ones!), and it has lots of extras. The "New Words" section is funny. It has everything from "Abs" to "Yada-yada-yada"..."Guide for Writers" (I should read that someday!)..."Avoiding Insensitive and Offensive Language" for the politically correct out there..."Glossary of Business Terms" if you need to figure out the fine print on a document, and much more. The words entries are in a bold clear print, making them easy to find, and the quality of the paper is excellent and of a good thickness (I have many dictionaries with paper so thin the print on the reverse side is visible). It's a sturdy little volume, ideal for daily use, and its bright red and yellow cover makes it a cheerful one too. Update 2/2006: The cover is getting a little worn looking (there is a thin film of plastic that is peeling off), but the binding is still solid, after all these years of daily use!

Good concise office reference

For more entries, and bigger letters you would buy a tome sized dictionary. This dictionary is very nice for an office reference. It has enough word entries, and is small enough to serve that purpose.