Extensively revised and updated to meet the needs of both English and Italian speakers in the 1990s, this new edition of The Oxford Italian Minidictionary provides fully up-to-date coverage of the general vocabulary of contemporary Italian and English with over 50,000 words and phrases and over 70,000 translations. Included is the newest terminology from areas such as business, computing, and current affairs; thousands of examples drawn from real speech and written sources; idomatic phrases illustrating words in use; full comverage of common abbreviations, irregular plurals, irregular masculine and feminine nouns, plurals and past tenses in Italian; and pronunciation for every Italian and English headword. The Oxford Italian Minidictionary is the perfect guide for anyone needing a quick and easy reference to the Italian language.