The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition
400,000 entries with 10,000 new words and tenses.
Full-color with 4,000 photographs and illustrations.
Updated guidance on usage from the renowned America Heritage Usage Panel, and new notes on regionalisms and language variation and change.
New notes on regionalisms and language variation and change.
Thousands of updated etymologies, a fully revised Appendix of Indo-European Roots, and a new Appendix of Semitic Roots.