WEBSTER S NEW WORLD COLLEGE DICTIONARY Leather

AMERICAN ENGLISH. Advanced. For Teenagers and Adults. The publication in 1988 ofWebster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition, was the triumphant result of more than four years of concentrated editorial effort and nearly as much time again in long-range planning. The new edition replaced the Second College Edition, which had served its readers well since 1970. It retained the many virtues of the parent volume while bolstering coverage of the rapidly growing lexicon of contemporary English and introducing important innovative lexicographic features. For all its many changes, this updated printing still preserves the excellent characteristics of the original publication, particularly with respect to clarity of definition, for which Webster's New World dictionaries have become justly famous. In addition, the work continues to provide more synonym studies and detailed etymologies than do competing dictionaries. This edition has a leader cover.