Incorporating the latest vocabulary based on the information revolution, this definitive new dictionary contains more than five thousand new words, comprehensive coverage of technology and Internet terms, accessible definitions, vocabulary coverage from other varieties of English, and more than eight hundred illustrations. 300,000 first printing.
General Editor Anne Soukhanov is one of the world's leading lexicographers. She is currently the "Word Watch" columnist for the Atlantic Monthly and was formerly the Executive Editor of the best-selling American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition (1992). She is also General Editor of the Encarta World English Dictionary