The Pocket Oxford Dictionary offers a convenient language reference with over 55,000 entries and 80,000 definitions. Designed for quick and easy access, the POD emphasizes clear presentation with a minimum of symbols. Of course, it offers all the distinguished features that have made Oxford's dictionaries so famous: thorough definitions, illustrative phrases and sentences, guidance on controversial uses (trade marks, offensive words, disputed senses, etc.), and etymologies. In addition, it includes appendices on weights ...
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The Pocket Oxford Dictionary offers a convenient language reference with over 55,000 entries and 80,000 definitions. Designed for quick and easy access, the POD emphasizes clear presentation with a minimum of symbols. Of course, it offers all the distinguished features that have made Oxford's dictionaries so famous: thorough definitions, illustrative phrases and sentences, guidance on controversial uses (trade marks, offensive words, disputed senses, etc.), and etymologies. In addition, it includes appendices on weights and measures, the Greek alphabet, the Russian alphabet, principal countries of the world, U.S. states, books of the Bible, and punctuation marks.
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