Oxford-PWN Polish-English English-Polish Dictionary: 2-Volume Set (English and Polish Edition) [Hardcover]

Jadwiga Linde-Usiekniewicz (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198610750 | ISBN-13: 978-0198610755 | Publication Date: October 20, 2005 | Edition: 1st

The Oxford-PWN Polish-English English-Polish Dictionary is a unique collaboration between Oxford University Press and Polish Scientific Publishers PWN.

In two beautifully presented volumes consisting of 400,000 words and phrases, and 600,000 translations, it offers up-to-date coverage of today's language, including business, specialist and technical vocabulary, and detailed coverage of idioms, slang, and formal language. It includes thousands of example sentences, based on actual English and Polish usage, which show how the language works in context.

With Polish material taken from the PWN Corpus of Polish, a huge databank of real Polish, and English language material derived from the Oxford English Corpus, a multi-million word databank of real English, this dictionary brings together the authority and expertise of two of the world's major reference publishers.

The result is the most comprehensive English and Polish dictionary available; suitable for university level and beyond, and essential for anyone working between English and Polish.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 2944 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1st edition (October 20, 2005)
• Language: English, Polish
• ISBN-10: 0198610750
• ISBN-13: 978-0198610755
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 8.1 x 5.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #955,821 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Thorough, October 12, 2006

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Devon Lechtenberg (Stillwater, OK USA) - See all my reviews
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Though I have not yet began to study Polish in earnest, I believe that this dictionary will serve me well for the rest of my life. It covers an immense amount of vocabulary which is needed for any serious student of any language. I reccomend this product to any commited student of Polish. It is well worth the price!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Polish-English, English-Polish dictionaries, August 25, 2007

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Oliver E. Williamson Jr. (Krakow, Poland) - See all my reviews
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These dictionaries have a lot of terms in them. I'm surprised and extremely pleased at how comprehensive they are. So far, every term I've wanted to look up has been in them. If you intend to stay in Poland for a long period of time, you need these dictionaries. The standard ones out there just don't have nearly all the terms you need to know.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Polish/English Translating, August 14, 2007

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Diane L. Mechlinski (New Britain, CT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Oxford-PWN Polish-English English-Polish Dictionary: 2-Volume Set (English and Polish Edition) (Hardcover)

I have taught ESL for quite some time and also write articles for a Polish-American biweekly newspaper. I've had numerous penpals from Poland over the years - and well, bottom line is that I've become very fluent with the Polish language but still, from time-to-time, find the need to have a good Polish/English dictionary at hand. I have used one of such for many years - it's tattered edges are proof of the need I've had for it over the years! However, over the years, I've outgrown my old dictionary and as new words have come into every language, so too have they into Polish....

This year I came across a project which is translating a book that someone wrote, from Polish to English. The book deals with someone's life story during WWII, and there are many terms in this book that I had trouble finding in my old dictionary. That is when I began looking for something newer, better. I came across the Oxford double set, and although I must admit that it's price might be the highest from any of the other out on the market presently, it is the best product I could've gotten. The definitions for each word entry are not only many and thorough but also sentence examples are given for everything. It's an amazing product. Definitely worth the price. And I'm sure I will have this dictionary for always. I highly recommend it.