"Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary is geared towards students ages 8-11. This full-color reference contains more than 36,000 entries as well as hundreds of illustrations, photographs, and diagrams. The book includes paragraphs about word histories, word roots, and synonyms; quotations from children's literature; maps and Geographical Names; and guides to Confused, Misused, and Misspelled Words, Capitalization, and Punctuation"--Provided by publisher....

"This new edition of Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary contains over 71,000 rhyming words, about 16,000 more than the first edition. The additions naturally include words that have come into common use since the earlier book's publication -- words such as busk, blog, out-there, dreadlocked, fearmonger, and jaw-dropper. But most of the book's additions are not actually new to the language. For the first time, most of the two-, three-, four-, and...

Contains over 150,000 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic equivalents, related words, and contrasted words in alphabetical arrangement.

This is a collection of stories about where our words have come from and how their meanings have grown.

A dictionary for grades four to six with meanings and uses given for more than 32,000 words. Includes explanatory introductory material with exercises and provides histories for many words.