A gift every word lover will cherish, this version of The American Heritage College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, has thumb-indexing and an attractiv...
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May 04, 2010
Lobstergirl
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In my family we brushed our teeth with Crest, we downed delicious cans of incomparably viscous Campbell's Cream of Mushroom Soup (maybe I should reverse the order of those two), we drank Tang and ate at Burger King and Roy Rogers, we puttered around in Chryslers and Volkswagens, and when we were perplexed by a new word we turned to American Heritage. I've owned this dictionary for a long, long time and I've never felt the need to replace it. It may not contain the definitions of Bollywood, sud
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Feb 22, 2010
Jenny
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I'm what you might call a connoisseur of dictionaries - I'm an avid reader and a writer, and I've used them all my life. This dictionary is THE BEST dictionary in existence. It contains something like 200,000 words, including proper nouns, such as the names of countries and famous people. It also contains "archaic" definitions, so if, for example, you're reading Dickens, and you want to know what he's talking about when he says "make love," you'd find that in the 1800s and ea
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Oct 05, 2011
Michael
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This is my favorite dictionary. It has clear, concise, modern definitions (in contrast to my second go-to source, MW's Unabridged) plus a good electronic version.
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