The Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English

📘 This is a completely revised and reset edition of the Dictionary that was first published in Tokyo, under the title Idiomatic and Syntactic English Dictionary, for the Institute for Research in English Teaching in 1942 and reprinted photographically by the Oxford University Press from 1948 onwards for publication outside Japan. A large number of new words has entered the language since 1940. Many words that occur in the first edition are now used in new senses and enter into new compounds. The compilers, aware of the wide range of books, from publishing houses in the U.S.A. besides those in Great Britain, that are likely to be read by advanced students of English, have readily admitted new words and phrases. The words and phrases given in this Dictionary are those that are likely to be needed by persons who use English for general purposes. This is not a Dictionary of «Modern English» if this term is used in its usual accepted sense, English since the time of Chaucer. The student of Chaucer will need specially annotated editions. It does not include all the words that occur in Shakespeare's plays. For these, too, annotated editions are needed. This Dictionary contains about 1,000 illustrations and diagrams. In the Appendixes there are other drawings and diagrams for sport and music, and for sailing-ships, aircraft, and motor-cars. Anyone reading, for example, the novels of Conrad or other authors concerned with the sea, will meet with many technical words connected with sai...