Merriam-WebsterMerriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Thumb-Indexed

This is very good dictionary, more invaluable than unabridged edition, because it is updated and have separate section of biographycal and geographical entries which unabridged edition lacked. A good value for money.

Good dictionary it includes lots of words such as scientific terms , geographical terms , historical terms , mathematical terms and many more.

I love this dictionary so much. In February, I got for ₹800 but I returned it thinking I am not going to use it. Now it’s too costly. Hope the price reduces.

I think this is a great product at this price.. it also came with a thesaurus

Not good.

great book for concise approach

Not sure now if I have reviewed this item before but, I am doing it again just in case.I downloaded the Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary a few weeks back now onto my Kindle Paper White. I am disappointed that the great illustrations and sketches found in my old hard copy of this great reference have not been included, well that has been my experience. Has anyone else had the same experience?I am currently trying to get some answers from Merriam Webster but, so for nothing seems to be forth coming from them. May be if you have an iPad or some other Apple device the illustrations appear but not so on my Kindle Paper White which I bought about 2 months ago.Rod

So I returned it for refund.

This dictionary is first class. It makes clear distinctions such as "boffin -- origin unknown --- chiefly Brit" --- "A large uncleared or sparsely settled area (as in Australia)" and "isolated rural country esp. of Australia". Because it is published in the USA it is not surprising to find occasional entries such as "BSA Boy Scouts of America" -- Birmingham in England having apparently escaped the editor's notice which in otther respects is unexceptionable.Since I came across an earlier edition of this book many years ago, I have used the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary for my own research in preference to encyclopedias and to complement on-line searching.

Excellent dictionary, no detail explanations necessary, I believe.Only one comment:The license agreement of the CD is NOT customer-oriented (to avoid the word "avaricious").I would like to install this helpful dictionary on both, my desktop AND on my laptop, but unfortunately, this is not possible since the license allows only one installation (even if I use only one at a time).Thus, if Webster-people should read this here: please change the license from one to two devices. Why? e.g. to get the 5th star ... ;-)

First of all this is an English-American dictionary. If you are looking for UK-English dictionary you should consider other alternatives. This dictionary is extremely well done. It includes loads of example an references. For almost each word there is one or more sentences to explain the use of the word. Similar words to the one searched are also listed. It's great for college students who need to write reports and thesis. Although nowadays you can use many on line dictionaries the paper version of this one is much handier because of the number and the quality of examples.I'd really suggest you this dictionary if you are writing technical documents.

bought the dictionary for my landlady who has a son working in the usa.the edition received was advertised as printed in 2014 and was printed earlier,still , it had a number of 1000 words more than earlier printings. cannot complain. customer

Classic Dictionary for American English - what's not to like. I particularly like the fact that it has British words and spellings of words and their meanings - not all British words 'translate' in quite the way you would expect to American English - so a great guide.