Product Description

With more than 85,000 entries—no other portable French and English paperback dictionary offers you so much at so reasonable a price. Newly revised and expanded, The Bantam New College French & English Dictionary is the finest low-priced dictionary you can own, the most complete, and the most convenient to use. Designed by foremost authorities, it includes thousands of modern words and definitions you are not likely to find elsewhere. Plus invaluable special features such as

•A concise reference grammar

•Handy usage tips for adjectives and verbs

•A table for all irregular verbs

•Easy-to-use pronunciation guide

•Many new meaning discriminations and connotations

•Essential current slang terms—and much more! All in one easy-to-carry compact volume.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #515241 in Books
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• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.09" h x 1.26" w x 4.41" l, .66 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 752 pages

Customer Reviews

Most helpful customer reviews

30 of 31 people found the following review helpful.
Very usable dictionary
By Erika Mitchell
This is a very usable bilingual dictionary. With 70,000 entries, it's all I've ever needed to get through daily life in French or even read non-technical books. Complete pronunciation information is given for entries in both languages. At the beginning of the French-English section is a very comprehensive summary of French grammar, including the complete declensions of 76 irregular verbs. With such a summary, you don't need to carry a grammar book along if you have this dictionary with you.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful.
Amazing piece of reference
By Richard Chen
Whether you like French or not, this small package packs a huge punch w/ its plethora of words. What really pleased me were all the idioms and phrases I didn't expect in a ENG-FR dictionary as small as this one. Its range of words, from the usual to the oddball, is great and I keep it next to me always when writing in FR. I've yet to find a dictionary as small as this one yet with the same wealth of reference.

23 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Comprehensive Dictionary with One of Few Decent Overviews
By A Customer
Probably the best of the Bantam New College series dictionaries, in my opinion. Its simple guide to French usage is simple enough to retain its clarity yet provide a good-enough overview so that one might compose small sentences with fair accuracy