Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary

This is a new edition, with an addition of "new," to the title of the Vth edition of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Both editions are based on Webster's New International Dictionary, edition II. Material of the previous edition has been retained but many new terms and meanings, older terms and meanings of increasing importance or frequency and abbreviations and proper names have been added by using a wider page and a wider column. Previous editions showed pages xxxiv + 1274, each page size being 8 x 4 ¾ inches, the present edition having page size of 8 11/16 x 5 ¾ inches.