Harpercollins Robert French Unabridged Dictionary: French-English/English-French

• ISBN13: 9780060084509
• ISBN10: 0060084502
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-30
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

<p align="left">The <i>HarperCollins Robert</i> is simply the best French dictionary you can buy. Here's why:</p><p align="left">Over 820,000 entries and translations, completely revised and updated. The <i>HarperCollins Robert</i> goes with you into the twenty-first century. With complete coverage of contemporary terms in business, technology, politics, culture, and medicine, the <i>HarperCollins Robert</i> is the most authoritative single-volume French-English dictionary available.</p><p align="left"><blockquote><b>More up-to-date:</b> The <i>HarperCollins Robert</i> is compiled in conjunction with the leading dictionary pubfisher in France and updated on a regular basis. The dictionary is highly praised for its accuracy, especially in the notoriously slippery area of French slang.</blockquote></p><p align="left"><blockquote><b>More colloquial usage than any other French dictionary:</b> With its emphasis on current French and English, extensive cross-referencing, and an in-depth guide to usage of idioms and phrases, the <i>HarperCollins Robert</i> has triple the breadth of its competitors.</blockquote></p><p align="left"><blockquote><b>More effective guidance:</b> The <i>HarperCollins Robert</i> contains a seventy-six-page "Language in Use" section designed to facilitate self-expression in the foreign language and a comprehensive system of style labels that identifies whether a word is formal, informal, literary, vulgar, dated, or euphemistic.</blockquote></p><p align="left">Here's a sampling of the new terms this edition includes:</p><p align="left"><blockquote>ADSL<br>E-fit<br>applet<br>gray market<br>broadband<br>mall rat<br>clickable<br>nethead<br>covermount<br>Pilates<br>day trader<br>superbug<br>deep vein thrombosis<br>ditz</blockquote></p>