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The Oxford Modern English Dictionary offers a handy one-volume reference on day-to-day English. Featuring over 90,000 entries, it draws on the powerful database of the famous Oxford English Dictionary to provide authoritative, in-depth coverage of the words in common use. The Oxford Modern English Dictionary offers clear and thorough definitions, with completely updated usage notes that offer precise guidance to the most accurate meanings. It also indicates word origins and offers illustrative phrases and sentences. In addition, this new dictionary is completely up-to-date, including such new words as bungee-jumping, crop circle, karaoke, and zouk. There is no more thorough and timely resource on the broad range of everyday English than The Oxford Modern English Dictionary.