Webster’s New World Dictionary of the American Language, College Edition in a Student Binding. This comprehensive reference work from The World Publishing Company features over 142,000 vocabulary entries, 1,200 illustrations, and 1,760 pages. It includes extensive etymologies, discriminative synonymies, and a complete record of modern American words and phrases. The volume contains helpful supplemental sections such as a key to pronunciation and symbols and language abbreviations used in the etymologies. A quintessential resource for students and linguists alike, presenting the dynamic language of the mid-twentieth century.