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The Oxford Encyclopaedic English Dictionary

The Oxford Encyclopaedic English Dictionary

by Joyce Hawkins (Editor), R.E. Allen (Editor)

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    Hardcover 1991

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Synopsis

This reference work aims to provide in a single volume a comprehensive dictionary of current English and all the information of a concise world encyclopaedia. Its features include over 200,000 dictionary definitions and 10,000 encyclopaedic articles covering current affairs, science and technology, history, people and places, sport and the arts. There is also a chronology of world events from the Palaeolithic age to the reunification of Germany in 1990, up-to-date coverage of new words and phrases in the English language, and numerous articles on people, organizations and concepts which are of contemporary interest.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 1803
 Edition: Thumb Ed. ed.
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 05 Sep 1991
ISBN 10: 0198612664
ISBN 13: 9780198612667

Author Bio
About the Editors: Joyce M. Hawkins is an editor in the Oxford Dictionaries Department. She has also edited The Oxford Reference Dictionary and The Oxford Minidictionary, among other works of reference. R.A. Allen is also an editor in the Oxford Dictionaries Department. He has edited The Concise Oxford Dictionary (8th edition), The Oxford Spelling Dictionary, and The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors.