Webster's New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition, 50th Anniversary »

The most up-to-date and clearly written dictionary for the new millennium!

The dictionary of choice for the Associated Press and America's leading newspapers, this updated 50th anniversary edition of Webster's New World College Dictionary continues to be outstanding for its page design and easy readability. With comprehensive, consistent, and helpful A-Z organization of all entries-including abbreviations, foreign words and phrases, and biographical and geographical entries-it features the clearest, most informative definitions of any college dictionary available today. Highlights include:

• Over 850 illustrations, with more than 200 photographs added at biographical entries
• The best coverage of American usage and idioms, including over 11,000 Americanisms
• Over 100 new entries for this updated edition
• Extensive back matter with scientific and geographical data and U.S. historical documents
• Four-color world atlas

Useful information on weights and measures, grammatical usage, and geological data

Dictionary Staff vi
Consultants and Contributing Editors vii
Foreword ix
Guide to the Dictionary xi
Guide to Pronunciation xxii
Dictionaries of English xxv
Webster's New World College Dictionary 1669
World Atlas 1012
Reference Supplement Rules of Punctuation 1672
Nations of the World 1677
World City Populations 1680
U.S. States 1682
U.S. Cities by Population 1683
U.S. Metropolitan Core Areas by Population 1684
Canada 1684
Cities of Canada by Population 1685
Mexico 1685
Geographical Data: 1687
Monetary Units: 1689
Roman Numerals 1690
Books of the Bible 1690
Calendars 1691
American Sign Language (ASL) 1691
Commonly Used Weights and Measures 1692
Periodic Table of Chemical Elements 1694
Alphabetical List of the Chemical Elements 1694
Geologic Time Chart 1696
Astronomical Data: 1698
Meteorology: