With 11,000 new words and meanings, this new edition captures a worldwide view of the English language as it's used today. Includes more than 400,000 words, phrases, and meanings; 2,000 key quotations through the ages; 10,000 biographical and geographical entries; and more. Young Adult.

With 11,000 new words and meanings, this new edition of the Encarta Webster's captures a worldwide view of the English language as it's used today. The dictionary offers more than 400,000 words, phrases, and meanings; 2,000 key quotations through the ages; 4,000 illustrated items, including maps, tables and charts; 10,000 biographical and geographical entries; and authoritative advice on usage, including 1,000 common misspellings and 900 usage notes. Encarta Webster's lexicographers have hunted down the latest terms from the worlds of information technology, science, popular culture, and business. They also include words entering common parlance from other languages, and in hundreds of fascinating word origin entries they note the derivation of English words and phrases. Written in a clear, accessible tone, up-to-date and expansive in its vision of English as an evolving and global tongue, the Encarta Webster's is an invaluable resource for English speakers everywhere.
General Editor Anne H. Soukhanov is one of the world's leading lexicographers. She is currently the "Word Watch" columnist for the "Atlantic Monthly" and was formerly the Executive Editor of the bestselling" American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition "(1992). She also served as General Editor of the "Microsoft Encarta College Dictionary."
A massive volume designed to help all readers employ English correctly, the" Encarta(R) Webster's Dictionary of the English Language" (which is the second edition of the "Encarta(R) World English Dictionary") captures our language at the dawn of the 21st century.
Today the English language is changing at an ever-faster pace--not just in terms of vocabulary and meaning but the very ways we write, speak, and communicate. In the midst of changes, the "Encarta(R) Webster's Dictionary of the English Language" offers clear, authoritative, fully researched guidance on the use of English, as well as exceptional breadth and depth of coverage.
At the same time it keeps in touch with our linguistic and cultural heritage, featuring entries on important people and places, key quotations, notes on world origins and word associations, and vocabulary from the new varieties of English, both local and global.
"Encarta(R) Webster's Dictionary of the English Language" delivers more of what users need in the 21st century:
More coverage--more than 400,000 words, phrases, and meanings
More up-to-date vocabulary--more than 9,000 words and meanings new to this edition
More help with using English correctly--unique Spellcheck notes that correct today's spelling problems
More encyclopedic features--illustrations, maps, tables, key places and people, and quotations by major figures
More insight into language change--unique coverage of new varieties
qlof English, and hundreds of notes on word origins
Opening up the world of words--detailed coverage of English from around the world
Fascinating history--includes a history of the English language, a history of dictionaries and dictionary makers, tens of thousands of word origins, and new Language Heritage notes
"The most ambitious dictionary of our language . . . A terrific new reference source."--"The Washington Post"
"The most ambitious dictionary of our language . . . A terrific new reference source."--"The Washington Post"
"The definitions and the way they are sequenced--to denote a hierarchy of contemporary usage--is right on target."--"The Baltimore Sun"