New Explorer College Dictionary (Webster's)
This dictionary was prepared especially for young adults. It is intended to serve as a guidebook on the meanings & uses of all the words you are most likely to hear, read, & use. It can be the most important reference book in the home or the classroom, because it contains information about language, which is the basis of almost all other learning.

Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (Merriam-Webster's)
This hardcover version dictionary, 11th Edition, is jacketed, has a navy kivar binding, & is plain-edged (no thumb indexing). For this new edition, America's largest staff of lexicographers made more than 100,000 changes & added more than 10,000 new words & senses, such as 'convergence', 'Frankenfood', 'phat',& many more. The 11th Edition also features over 40,000 usage examples--more than before-which clarify confused or disputed terms.

Collegiate Thesaurus, Paperback (Merriam-Webster's)
This thesaurus is specially designed for those who want to enlarge their vocabularies & learn more about the rich variety of the English language. We hope & expect that users will readily turn to a dictionary whenever they need a better understanding of the meaning of any word used in the thesaurus.

Dictionary and Thesaurus (Merriam-Webster's)
This book marks the introduction of a new kind of product from Merriam-Webster, one that combines the features & a dictionary, with its meanings, pronunciations, & grammatical information, with the synonym & antonym features of a thesaurus. Additionally, in this volume, these features are not just combined but integrated into a unified whole, so that the reader & writer can easily see the relationships between the two kinds of information.

College Thesaurus (American Heritage)
This is a book devoted entirely to meaning. In contrast to the old-fashioned thesaurus, which groups undifferentiated words together with an entry word with no definition, this book provides an analysis--a definition--of the meaning or meanings of each entry work in the book. Synonyms are grouped according to meaning.

Collegiate Thesaurus, Hardcover 2nd Edition (Merriam-Webster's)
This thesaurus provides such guidance by grouping the true synonyms together & by stating explicitly the meaning that is shared by all of the synonyms in each group.

Webster's All-in-One Dictionary & Thesaurus
This book combines the features of a dictionary, with its meanings, pronunciations, & usage guidance with the synonym & antonym features of a thesaurus. In this volume they are not just combined but integrated into a unified whole, to give the user the best of both volumes.

This dictionary was prepared especially for young adults. It is intended to serve as a guidebook on the meanings and uses of all the words you are most likely to hear, read, and use. It can be most important reference book in the home or the classroom, because it contains information about language, which is the basis of almost all other learning.

Unique in concept and design, this groundbreaking resource combines two great Webster's New World reference works in a single volume. Dictionary entries and corresponding thesaurus entries appear together on each page, so you can check the spelling and definitions of a word and also research its synonyms--all at a single glance.

Features:
Up-to-Date Entries
Over 850 Illustrations, Photographs, and Maps
Updated Annually
Expanded Reference Information
Thousands of Geographical and Biographical Entries
Helpful Notes, Examples, and Synonyms
Easy to Read and Use
The Definitive Guide to American English