American Heritage College Dictionary

America's Favorite College Dictionary Has Been Revised and Updated The Fourth Edition Includes: * 7,500 new words and meanings, such as Amber Alert, blog, proteomics, SARS, WiFi * Informative and up-to-date biographical and geographical entries * More than 300 Usage Notes based on the opinions of our renowned Usage Panel * Hundreds of Synonym, Word History, Regional, and Our Living Language Notes for a deeper appreciation of language and language variation * Revised Appendix of Indo-European Roots tracing English words with very different spellings back to their common ancestors * More than 2,500 photographs, maps, and line drawings that make this the most visually informative dictionary available today Fully Loadable WindowsR/MacR CD-ROM Features: * The complete text of The American HeritageR Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition * A college-level Thesaurus containing more than 260,000 synonyms, with every synonym fully defined * Search by word, phrase, or wildcard * Spell-checking capability * Over 1,000 photographs and illustrations * Over 68,000 audio pronunciations * Can be used in any MicrosoftR Office application to get definitions instantly with the click of a mouse.American Heritage Dictionary Editors is the author of 'American Heritage College Dictionary', published 2004 under ISBN 9780618453009 and ISBN 0618453008.