Random House Webster's 2.0

The Random House Webster’s Dictionary is designed to meet the wide-ranging needs of today’s students and scholars, who may study ancient documents one hour and surf the Internet the next; of professional writers, who craft poems or write articles for technical journals; of businesspeople, who need to communicate clearly; and–above all–the needs of word lovers.

Main features:

- A Words Section in the front of the book with over 1,100 important words and meanings–words such as broadband, urban legend, Disneyfy, and smoothie.

- Over 315,000 entries

- 1,500 updated definitions and entries

- 2,400 illustrations and spot maps

- Scholarly, up-to-date etymologies, including dates to show when terms entered the language, and showing clearly labeled Americanisms

- Entries for important and famous people; places and historical events; major works of literature, music, and art; names and abbreviations of academic, governmental, social, and fraternal organizations; popular given names; common abbreviations; and foreign terms.