Why buy the Oxford Concise Dictionary?
• More words: the Oxford Concise Dictionary has a massive 34,000 (52%) more words than the Pocket Oxford • Thousands of extra meanings: even for simple words like “field”, the Concise beats the Pocket with nine more senses. There are also more hundreds more phrases, such as “keep the ball rolling” and “the cherry on the cake” • More scientific and specialist words: thousands of words from subjects like Anatomy (endothelium), Biochemistry (ribosome), Genetics (disomy), and Computing (applet). Find more rare, old and difficult words: if you want to find out what a cacoethes is (an urge to do something inadvisable) or what to do with a palfrey (it’s a docile horse, so you’d ride it), the Concise can tell you!
