Products tagged with 'oxford dictionary'

An essential point of reference for anyone wanting to widen their vocabulary, this dictionary offers more than 140,000 alternative and opposite words as well as thousands of real examples of usage from the Oxford English Corpus to help you find the word you need quickly and easily.

A new edition of this favourite illustrated alphabetical dictionary of key maths terms and concepts from the curriculum. An essential dictionary for children aged 8-11 to use at both home and school, with around 1000 words and meanings and a thematic supplement on focus areas.

This new edition has been completely revised and updated, with hundreds of new entries added that reflect the important areas of contemporary word creation. The Oxford Australian Mini Dictionary is written for those who need a compact guide to the spelling and meaning of words in the English language today.

A dictionary of real and invented words used by the world's best storyteller. The Oxford Roald Dahl Dictionary reveals what they mean, where they came from and how he used them in his stories. It will inspire you to choose and use each word brilliantly in your own writing - whether it's a real word, a Roald Dahl word or your own made-up one!

Bridging to English is a very important part of education reform in Papua New Guinea.  For the first three years of schooling (elementary prep, 1 and 2), children are taught the skills of literacy in their own local language in tok ples skuls.  English is introduced from about grade 3, the first year of primary school. The aim of this dictionary is to help young children in the ‘Bridging to English’ years.  Each child can record the meanings of English words in the tok ples columns u sing their own local language, or perhaps tok pisin.  When competed, each child will have compiled their own personal dictionary in their own local language.