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Langenscheidt Lilliput Webster: English Dictionary

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Everyone should have one of these. It easily fits into the palm of your hand and is very useful. The definitions are easy to understand as well. It definitely deserves 5 stars!

This is a physically tiny book of 602 pages of readable definitions. Fun to own and useful. There is always room for it at about one inch in size.

I must say, this book is wonderful! Although it won't always have the word you are looking for, it will have most of them. And you won't waste anytime looking up the meaning of the words used to define the word you were looking up, like you will with other, bigger, snobbier dictionaries. The definitions are simple, to the point and laconic (unlike me). I have taken this book just about everywhere with me since I bought it, nearly ten years ago. Sure the gold lettering is wearing off the cover and the edges of the pages are discolored from fingertips and pocket-grime, but it has held up to the abuse! Love it!

This 2 x 1.5 inch, 640-page book is absolutely adorable. The editors have taken a slightly different aproach in compiling this dictionary, in the interest of fitting as many helpful definitions as possible into a very tiny space. They have left out a large number of very common words - those that no one could ever reasonably be expected to look up anyway. This way, they have managed to include over 7,000 words that someone might actually need a definition for. The defintions themselves are clear, concise, and to the point. The only downsides to such a small dictionary are that, of course, it still cannot be as far-reaching as a regular, or even a standard pocket-size dictionary, and it would also be very easy to lose. However, as a lover of anything miniature, I consider this to be worth owning for its novelty and cuteness alone.