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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Theodore M. Bernstein
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This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 0-395-09066-0 / 978-0-395-09066-4.
more credited people: see bottom


The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is a completely new dictionary – new in content, new in format, new in the wealth of information it offers. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language presents not only words and their meanings but also extensive notes on how to use the language, prepared with the assistance of more than a hundred of America's most notable writers, editors, and public speakers.

Among the many special features that make The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language clearly superior to any comparable dictionary are:

- Clear, cogent, readily understandable definitions, succinctly stated with no confusing abbreviations, signs and symbols.
- Word histories that trace all the Indo-European roots of English, for the first time in any dictionary.
- A pronunciation key, repeated on each two-page spread, that is the most complete and easiest to use in any college dictionary.
- Thousands of new words from the world of science and technology and authoritative coverage of all technical fields.
- Hundreds of notes on synonyms. each clearly showing the subtle differences between words of closely similar meaning, to help the dictionary user find precisely the right word.
- Hundreds of illustrative quotations from literature–from Shakespeare to Sontag and Salinger–to help the dictionary user grasp the meaning by seeing the word in the context of a quotation from a skillful writer.
- Introductory series of articles by seven eminent scholars on aspects of English illuminated by modern linguistic science: on the history of the English language; on the Indo-European origins of English; on the question of correct usage today and in historical perspective; on American regional dialects; on generative and transformational grammar; on the relationship between spelling and pronunciation in English; and on the application of computer techniques to the analysis of language.
- Distinguished literary, academic, scientific, and technical consultants in all fields.
- More than 4,000 illustrations – photographs, paintings, drawings – especially chosen or created for this Dictionary to supplement the definitions in the text; several hundred specially drawn locator maps, representing every nation and major territory in the world, as well as half-page maps of the United States and Canada.
- Thousands of capsule biographies of leading figures–both past and present–in history, art, literature, and science.
- Geographic data on all major cities of the world, together with major physical features of the earth's surface.
- All information, except the appendix of Indo-European roots, entered in one alphabetical listing to eliminate the necessity of consulting many separate supplements. Articles and charts on such subjects as geologic time, color, measurement, and subatomic particles in the main text of the dictionary–often with specially drawn charts, graphs, or other illustrations.
- In sum, the freshest, most innovative, and most useful dictionary to be published in this century.


People not credited above due to technical limitations:


PEOPLE PARTLY CREDITED ABOVE

Morton W. Bloomfield, Essay, Board of linguistics, Usage Panel
Calvert Watkins, Essay, Board of linguistics, Director of Etymology, Usage Panel Arts and Humanities

PEOPLE NOT CREDITED ABOVE

USAGE PANEL

Walter Lippmann
Russell Lynes
Eugene McCarthy
Dwight Macdonald
David McCord
Margaret Mead
Rhoda Métraux
William J. Miller
Marianne Moore
Lewis Mumford
John Courtney Murray
Maurine Neuberge
James Newman
Margaret Nicholson
David Ogilvy
Mario Pei
James A. Pike
Katherine Anne Porter
Orville Prescott
Charles D. Rice
Berton Roueché
Richard Rovere
Vermont Royster
Winthrop Sargeant
Robert Saudek
Glenn T. Seaborg
Harlow Shapley
John K. Sherman
Walter W. Smith
Theodore Sorenson
Wallace Stegner
George R. Stewart
Allen Tate
Henry F. Thoma
Virgil Thomson
Barbara W. Tuchman
Stewart Udall
Irita Van Doren
Mark Van Doren
William Vaughan
[Calvert Watkins]
Richard Watts, Jr.
Hobart G. Weekes
Anthony West
Rogers Whitaker
Oscar Williams
William Zinsser


CONSULTANTS

Arts and humanities

Richard D. Altick
Willi Apel
Charles F. Berlitz
James Marston Fitch
Ignace J. Gelb
Harold F. Harding
James Humphry III
Bernard M. W. Knox
Burt Korall
Wayne C. Minnick
Beaumont Newhall
Allardyce Nicoll
George Kimball Plochmann
Maurice F. Tauber
Walter Terry
John Walker
[Calvert Watkins]

Life sciences

Isaac Asimov
Jesse F. Bone
Ralph Buchsbaum
William H. Burt
Spencer H. Davis, Jr.
Frederick C. Fink
Garrett Hardin
Adrian Lambert
Douglas A. Lancaster
R. H. Nelson
James A. Peters
Joseph L. Peterson
Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr.
Timothy Prout
Donn E. Rosen
Frederick E. Smith
William C. Steere
Norman Taylor
Georg Zappler

Physical Sciences and mathematics

Peter M. Bernays
Edward J. Cogan
Richard Hanau
Paul J. Kliauga
James E. Miller
Lloyd Motz
Frederick H. Pough
John A. Shimer
M. J. Sienko
Thaddeus L. Smith
George L. Trigg
William C. Vergara

Practical and applied sciences

Frank O. Braynard
Elbridge Colby
Frederick C. Durant III
Dorothy Fey
Clayton Knight
N. Dan Larsen
Dorothy Nickerson
Frank K. Perkins
J. Lowell Pratt
Virginia L. Robertson
Milton Seaman
Milton A. Sprague
Victor Strauss

Religion

Walter J. Burghardt
Klaus J. Hansen
Harry M. Orlinsky
Jaroslav Pelikan
Allison W. Phinney
Edward N. West

Social sciences

Harold E. Driver
Thomas F. Dwyer
John Flynn
Charles Fried
Carl J. Friedrich
N. L. Gage
John A. Garraty
William N. Kinnard, Jr.
Jesse William Markham
Wilbert E. Moore
Hallam L. Movius, Jr.
Edwin B. Newman
J. H. Plumb
Norman J. G. Pounds
Bernard Wailes
Language
English
Pages
1550
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1969

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language

Theodore M. Bernstein
0/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
This is an alternate cover edition of ISBN 0-395-09066-0 / 978-0-395-09066-4.
more credited people: see bottom


The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is a completely new dictionary – new in content, new in format, new in the wealth of information it offers. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language presents not only words and their meanings but also extensive notes on how to use the language, prepared with the assistance of more than a hundred of America's most notable writers, editors, and public speakers.

Among the many special features that make The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language clearly superior to any comparable dictionary are:

- Clear, cogent, readily understandable definitions, succinctly stated with no confusing abbreviations, signs and symbols.
- Word histories that trace all the Indo-European roots of English, for the first time in any dictionary.
- A pronunciation key, repeated on each two-page spread, that is the most complete and easiest to use in any college dictionary.
- Thousands of new words from the world of science and technology and authoritative coverage of all technical fields.
- Hundreds of notes on synonyms. each clearly showing the subtle differences between words of closely similar meaning, to help the dictionary user find precisely the right word.
- Hundreds of illustrative quotations from literature–from Shakespeare to Sontag and Salinger–to help the dictionary user grasp the meaning by seeing the word in the context of a quotation from a skillful writer.
- Introductory series of articles by seven eminent scholars on aspects of English illuminated by modern linguistic science: on the history of the English language; on the Indo-European origins of English; on the question of correct usage today and in historical perspective; on American regional dialects; on generative and transformational grammar; on the relationship between spelling and pronunciation in English; and on the application of computer techniques to the analysis of language.
- Distinguished literary, academic, scientific, and technical consultants in all fields.
- More than 4,000 illustrations – photographs, paintings, drawings – especially chosen or created for this Dictionary to supplement the definitions in the text; several hundred specially drawn locator maps, representing every nation and major territory in the world, as well as half-page maps of the United States and Canada.
- Thousands of capsule biographies of leading figures–both past and present–in history, art, literature, and science.
- Geographic data on all major cities of the world, together with major physical features of the earth's surface.
- All information, except the appendix of Indo-European roots, entered in one alphabetical listing to eliminate the necessity of consulting many separate supplements. Articles and charts on such subjects as geologic time, color, measurement, and subatomic particles in the main text of the dictionary–often with specially drawn charts, graphs, or other illustrations.
- In sum, the freshest, most innovative, and most useful dictionary to be published in this century.


People not credited above due to technical limitations:


PEOPLE PARTLY CREDITED ABOVE

Morton W. Bloomfield, Essay, Board of linguistics, Usage Panel
Calvert Watkins, Essay, Board of linguistics, Director of Etymology, Usage Panel Arts and Humanities

PEOPLE NOT CREDITED ABOVE

USAGE PANEL

Walter Lippmann
Russell Lynes
Eugene McCarthy
Dwight Macdonald
David McCord
Margaret Mead
Rhoda Métraux
William J. Miller
Marianne Moore
Lewis Mumford
John Courtney Murray
Maurine Neuberge
James Newman
Margaret Nicholson
David Ogilvy
Mario Pei
James A. Pike
Katherine Anne Porter
Orville Prescott
Charles D. Rice
Berton Roueché
Richard Rovere
Vermont Royster
Winthrop Sargeant
Robert Saudek
Glenn T. Seaborg
Harlow Shapley
John K. Sherman
Walter W. Smith
Theodore Sorenson
Wallace Stegner
George R. Stewart
Allen Tate
Henry F. Thoma
Virgil Thomson
Barbara W. Tuchman
Stewart Udall
Irita Van Doren
Mark Van Doren
William Vaughan
[Calvert Watkins]
Richard Watts, Jr.
Hobart G. Weekes
Anthony West
Rogers Whitaker
Oscar Williams
William Zinsser


CONSULTANTS

Arts and humanities

Richard D. Altick
Willi Apel
Charles F. Berlitz
James Marston Fitch
Ignace J. Gelb
Harold F. Harding
James Humphry III
Bernard M. W. Knox
Burt Korall
Wayne C. Minnick
Beaumont Newhall
Allardyce Nicoll
George Kimball Plochmann
Maurice F. Tauber
Walter Terry
John Walker
[Calvert Watkins]

Life sciences

Isaac Asimov
Jesse F. Bone
Ralph Buchsbaum
William H. Burt
Spencer H. Davis, Jr.
Frederick C. Fink
Garrett Hardin
Adrian Lambert
Douglas A. Lancaster
R. H. Nelson
James A. Peters
Joseph L. Peterson
Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr.
Timothy Prout
Donn E. Rosen
Frederick E. Smith
William C. Steere
Norman Taylor
Georg Zappler

Physical Sciences and mathematics

Peter M. Bernays
Edward J. Cogan
Richard Hanau
Paul J. Kliauga
James E. Miller
Lloyd Motz
Frederick H. Pough
John A. Shimer
M. J. Sienko
Thaddeus L. Smith
George L. Trigg
William C. Vergara

Practical and applied sciences

Frank O. Braynard
Elbridge Colby
Frederick C. Durant III
Dorothy Fey
Clayton Knight
N. Dan Larsen
Dorothy Nickerson
Frank K. Perkins
J. Lowell Pratt
Virginia L. Robertson
Milton Seaman
Milton A. Sprague
Victor Strauss

Religion

Walter J. Burghardt
Klaus J. Hansen
Harry M. Orlinsky
Jaroslav Pelikan
Allison W. Phinney
Edward N. West

Social sciences

Harold E. Driver
Thomas F. Dwyer
John Flynn
Charles Fried
Carl J. Friedrich
N. L. Gage
John A. Garraty
William N. Kinnard, Jr.
Jesse William Markham
Wilbert E. Moore
Hallam L. Movius, Jr.
Edwin B. Newman
J. H. Plumb
Norman J. G. Pounds
Bernard Wailes
Language
English
Pages
1550
Format
Hardcover
Release
January 01, 1969

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