Cassell's French Dictionary by Girard, Denis;

Short description:

A hundred years of experience in dictionary publishing lies behind this edition of the famous Cassell's French Dictionary. After more than thirty impressions of the previous edition this entirely new dictionary has been compiled by a team of eminent linguists.

Long description:

A hundred years of experience in dictionary publishing lies behind this edition of the famous Cassell's French Dictionary. After more than thirty impressions of the previous edition this entirely new dictionary has been compiled by a team of eminent linguists.

Reviewing the new dictionary The Times Educational Supplement said: "One handles this dictionary with the same pleasure that a craftsman feels when he finds that a tool, dulled and blunted by long use and passage of time, has come back sharpened and polished, refurbished and fit once more for long years of useful service. Everyone has his testing?points for a dictionary and the present reviewer, after submitting this one to the ordeal, awarded it a tentative full marks. Its minor defects pale into insignificance before the scholarly achievement of a work for which the publishers can rightly claim that it is 'the most authoritative, up?to?date and, within the limits of size, the most comprehensive French dictionary available.'"

Cassell's Bilingual Dictionaries Acclaimed Worldwide Since 1854

• Includes neologisms, colloquial terms and idiomatic usage.
• Incorporates modern scientific, technical, political and industrial terms.
• Embodies French?Canadian regional words and phrases.
• Vocabulary covers both modern speech and classical, literary French, and includes proper names.

Reviewing the new dictionary The Times Educational Supplement said: "One handles this dictionary with the same pleasure that a craftsman feels when he finds that a tool, dulled and blunted by long use and passage of time, has come back sharpened and polished, refurbished and fit once more for long years of useful service. Everyone has his testing?points for a dictionary and the present reviewer, after submitting this one to the ordeal, awarded it a tentative full marks. Its minor defects pale into insignificance before the scholarly achievement of a work for which the publishers can rightly claim that it is 'the most authoritative, up?to?date and, within the limits of size, the most comprehensive French dictionary available.'"

"One handles this dictionary with the same pleasure that a craftsman feels when he finds that a tool, dulled and blunted by long use and passage of time, has come back sharpened and polished, refurbished and fit once more for long years of useful service. Everyone has his testing?points for a dictionary and the present reviewer, after submitting this one to the ordeal, awarded it a tentative full marks. Its minor defects pale into insignificance before the scholarly achievement of a work for which the publishers can rightly claim that it is 'the most authoritative, up?to?date and, within the limits of size, the most comprehensive French dictionary available.'" —The Times Educational Supplement

Table of Contents:

Bibliography.

Preface.

Préface sur les Canadianismes.

Advice to the User.

Avis au Lecteur.

Key to Pronunciation.

List of Abbreviations.

PART I: FRENCH?ENGLISH DICTIONARY.

PART II: ENGLISH?FRENCH DICTIONARY.

Conversion Tables for Weights and Measures.

French Irregular Verbs.

English Irregular Verbs.

Common French Abbreviations.

Common English Abbreviations.