Some 25,000 word meanings and connotations are explained by more than 300,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonymns, 250 notes by well-known authors, and many sample sentences.

Much more than a word list, the Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus is a browsable source of inspiration as well as an authoritative guide to selecting and using vocabulary. This innovative thesaurus eatures real-life example sentences, usage notes, literary quotations, and thought-provoking reflections on favorite (and not-so-favorite) words by over two dozen renowned contemporary writers. The third edition revises and updates this innovative reference, enhancing it with new features and adding hundreds of new words, senses, and phrases to the more than 300,000 synonyms and 10,000 antonyms.

This new edition of the Oxford Paperback Thesaurus forms part of a new range of Oxford thesauruses derived from the New Oxford Thesaurus of English. It is ideal for all kinds of writing needs - for study, at home, or in the office - and it offers excellent value for money, having more alternative and opposite words than any other thesaurus at this price point. In addition, the closest and most useful alternative words are given first, with words which are closest in meaning to the entry word given in capitals, thousands of example phrases help you to select the correct word, and opposites and related terms are clearly marked.

Covers basic grammar, punctuation, spelling, and idiomatic phrases of American English.

With essays, notes, and tips from some of today's most brilliant wordsmiths, this is the first thesaurus "for" writers, "by" writers.

Using the text of the Little Oxford Thesaurus, this popular Oxford Thesaurus has now been revised with a new appendix. With 150,000 synonyms, it is bigger than competing thesauruses of its size, and provides more help in the form of example phrases and context labels than other similar products. Colour highlighting of key information in each entry greatly enhance the book's ease of use, and a new `dictionary skills' appendix helps the user get more out of the thesaurus by providing questions (and answers) which test vocabulary skills. This thesaurus is the ideal companion to the Oxford Colour Dictionary.