This is a new and completely updated edition of the Paperback Oxford English Dictionary. It offers over 120,000 words, phrases, and definitions, covering all the vocabulary you need for everyday use. These words have been carefully selected from the evidence of the Oxford English Corpus, a database of 21st-century English containing hundreds of millions of words. In this new edition, the definitions are clearer than ever before, and additional usage notes have been added to help with tricky grammatical issues. New spelling notes provide quick and easy help with commonly misspelled words such as exaggerate and necessary. The all-new Fact Finder center section provides quick reference insights about people, places, and events, as well as useful lists such as the world's seas and oceans, presidents and prime ministers, and countries and currencies. This portable and affordable dictionary is ideal for solving puzzles and crosswords, but also perfect as a general reference at home, at school, or in the office. A new open-ended design makes this dictionary more accessible and easier to use than ever before.