The Cambridge French-English Thesaurus

By Marie-Noklle Lamy

Book Overview

This highly useful bilingual thesaurus is aimed at all English-speaking learners and users of French at intermediate and more advanced levels. Structured in a uniquely helpful way, it is arranged thematically, with extensive subdivisions into topic categories. Two alphabetical indexes of more than 8,000 words each, one listing English vocabulary and the other French, help readers find what they're looking for easily. This is the best bilingual thesaurus available Like the best thesauri, it gives not only analogous words but analogous phrases and expressions as well; moreover it explains in what contexts the different synonyms should be used. Contains a wealth of information Let's say you want to look up the French for the word difficult. You may know that this translates into French as difficile but may be curious about other, synonymous words that could be used to mean difficult in slightly different contexts. Look up difficult in the English-French index at the back of the book, and you're directed to a section that gives you a range of synonymous words and tells you when to use them. Explains nuances and contexts In this way it's like a very elaborate dictionary, with phrases as well as words. Easy to use in French and English There's not only a long English-French index, but a long French-English one as well, so you can come at it from either language, to find your lists of synonyms in either English or French. Moreover, it gives American English expressions as well as British English ones, wherever they differ.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521425816
• ISBN13: 9780521425810
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.8" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The Cambridge French/English Thesaurus

This book is enormously useful. As a student of French, this book comes in handy when doing French homework, especially French crossword puzzles. If you have done at least a couple of years French study, this is an added bonus.

Translations

I am finding the Thesaurus an invaluable help in translations of all kinds - I wish I had ordered it long ago!

IT WAS EXTREMELY CONCISE AND COMPREHENSIBLE; GOOD FORMAT

IT WAS NOT AT ALL WHAT I EXPECTED FOR A REGULAR THESAURUS. THE FORMAT MAKES IT EASY TO FIND DIFFERENT THEMES AND SUBDIVISIONS. I WILL DEFINITELY RECOMMEND IT TO MY FELLOW CONSTITUANTS TAKING FRENCH OR THOSE THAT KNOW THE LANGUAGE.