Product Description

Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, is the largest, most comprehensive American dictionary available, containing over 472,000 entries, 14,000 new words in a special Addenda Section, 3,000 illustrations, and 140,000 etymologies describing word origins. Boxed hardcover, buckram binding, thumb-notched. The enclosed WIN/MAC CD-ROM includes 1000 color illustrations from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Deluxe Edition. 13 search options let you find the right words to communicate effectively, research words and their histories, and even locate answers to your word puzzles and games. This powerful electronic version of America's most comprehensive dictionary installs easily onto the hard drive for instant access, and is the ideal reference tool for home, school and office. --

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #254008 in Books
• Brand: Merriam-Webster
• Published on: 2000-10
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 10.75 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 2783 pages

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• Sold Individually

Amazon.com Review
If big is better, the unabridged Webster's Third New International Dictionary is among the best. Weighing 12.5 pounds and measuring 4 inches thick, its 2,662 pages define more than 450,000 words spanning "a" to "zyzzogeton," including words ("disselboom" for instance) not found in other dictionaries, plus clear definitions, comprehensive etymologies, interesting asides, literary usage quotes, and a comfortable typeface. More than 150 years of accumulated scholarship helped collect the 10,000,000 usage examples that accurately provide definitions, and $3,500,000 went into producing this impressive volume. With Webster's Third you get a lot of dictionary for your money.

About the Author
Since 1937. Merriam-Webster is America's foremost publisher of language-related reference works. The company publishes a diverse array of print and electronic products, including Merriam-Webster's Collegiate® Dictionary, Eleventh Edition – America's best-selling desk dictionary – and Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster can be considered the direct lexicographical heir of Noah Webster. In 1843, the company bought the rights to the 1841 edition of Webster's magnum opus, An American Dictionary of the English Language, Corrected and Enlarged. At the same time, they secured the rights to create revised editions of the work. Since that time, Merriam-Webster editors have carried forward Noah Webster's work, creating some of the most widely used and respected dictionaries and reference books in the world.

Customer Reviews

This Review Is For CD ROM Only NOT THE BOOK
The CD-Rom is very disappointing. The graphics look like early 90's graphics, the font has no ability to be adjusted to a larger size, and the sentences are all bunched together making it difficult to read. It's as if they just scanned the W3 into a software format and decided to sell it with absolutely no modifications. The developers should take a hint from Encarta's Dictionary format. And all this for $49.95. Oh, and if you've got Webster's Collegiate Ed. installed, (on Windows XP) you cannot install the W3 alongside of it (I wanted to do this to compare definitions). It's either one or the other.

Some additional improvements would be a pronunciation guide (the kind that you click on the word and it pronounces the word out loud), as well as a feature to hide archaic or obsolete definitions of a word.

Sent Wrong Item! Ordered 2002 edition/Sent 1986 edition!
I ordered a copy of this Dictionary that according to the site was published in June of 2002 for a local school spelling bee. I was sent an older copy of this dictionary that was published in 1986 that is too old to be of use in the spelling bee. I have written e-mail to the seller asking that he either send me the updated 2002 dictionary or refund my money and have not heard anything back yet! I hope that my school's students are not going to be dissapointed!

Good Dictionary, Outdated CD Rom
The dictionary is the authoritative text for American English. The CD ROM, however was outdated and did not run on Windows XP--thus worthless to me.