The chambers dictionary.

The chambers dictionary. - EH : Chambers, c2006. - xxxi,1839p. 28 cm.

and references to works of literature that atre no longer widely read were clarified,with notes on all on all of the authors mentioned in classification labels being added as part of the appendices at the back of the book. fascinating words with the power to surprise and amuse.The dictionary's structure was made more transparent by clarifying the way the entries are arranged obsolete and opaque language was removed from definitions Provides the contemporary user with information on the unfamiliar :the words they come across in our literary heritage unusual words as well as commonly heard ones words from the past as well as the present words from the the diferent dialectsof English

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