NEW OXFORD AMERICAN DICTIONARY

The New Oxford American Dictionary is Oxford's flagship American dictionary, offering comprehensive and authoritative coverage of the English language, with over 350,000 words, phrases, and senses, plus hundreds of explanatory notes. The Third Edition will feature a completely updated text, modern new text design, new in-text feature on Word Trends, and approximately 2,000 new words and meanings. Coverage will be expanded and revised using the two-billion-word Oxford English Corpus and new tools for its analysis to reveal patterns of usage in modern English.

Preface to the Third Edition; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; How to Use This Dictionary; Key to the Pronunciations; Key to the Abbreviations; The New Oxford American Dictionary; Ready Reference (in center); Illustration Credits (at back)