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The Oxford American writer's thesaurus / compiled by Christine A. Lindberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lindberg, Christine A., 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Synonyms and antonyms.
- English language.
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 1088 pages ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- "Written by writers for writers, this innovative thesaurus truly advances the time-honored word source. Some 25,000 word meanings and connotations are elucidated by means of more than 300,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonymns, 250 word notes written by noted authors, and generous listings of example sentences. Many special features, such as usage notes, word spectrums, and a language guide, further clarify a word's many nuances and assist the user in finding just the right expression. For all readers, wordsmiths, scribblers, and hacks, Oxford's new thesaurus should be on every library's reference shelf."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.
- Contents:
- In Search of the Exact Word ix
- Word Notes xx
- Word Banks xxiii
- Word Spectrums xxv
- Writer's Reference 1029
- Language Guide 1031
- Proofreader's Marks 1088
- Writing Prompts 1089.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James A. Crawford Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0195170768
- OCLC:
- 56370523
- Online:
- Publisher description
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