An expanded, encyclopedic version of the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, ideal for culture and civilisation courses. This new encyclopedic dictionary, based on the highty successful Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, offers everything you will ned when reading and writing in English on a huge range of topics.
Whatever your essential reading novels or newspapers, textbooks or set texts this unrivalled dictionary has been designed to help fill any gaps your knowledge, whether linguistic or cultural.
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Notes on usage
- Articles and "mini-notes"
- Using the dictionary - a guide to the entries
- The Dictionary
Appendices
1. Maps
2. Political Leaders
3. British monarchs and key historical events
4. Military ranks
5. The books of the Bible
6. The works of William Shakespeare
7. Common forenames
8. Family relationships
9. Numerical expressions
10. Weights and measures
11. The Chemical elements
12. The SI units
13. Irregular verbs
14. Punctuation
- Front endpapers
- Back endpapers