Featuring 68,000 words; 34,000 illustrative examples; 900 Usage Notes and Synonym Studies; 1200 full-color photos, fine art, maps, diagrams, and illustrations; full-color theme-spreads on such topics as knights and castles, sculpture, dinosaurs, and space; 18 page reference section; and more! Grades 4-6
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This middle-school dictionary fills the niche between the Thorndike-Barnhart Children's Dictionary and the Thorndike-Barnhart Student Dictionary. It has been previously published in a school edition as the ScottForesman Intermediate Dictionary, but this is the first time it has been issued in a trade edition. The distinguished lexicographers for whom the series is named are both deceased (Thorndike in 1949, Barnhart this year). Completely revamped and updated, it features several innovations. Editor Bready acknowledges that since students are accustomed to dealing with information presented in small, manageable bits, the editors have streamlined many of the definitions. For example, the previous entry for range included 16 definitions for it as a noun, seven as a verb, and 20 examples. The new edition provides 16 definitions total, intermixing noun and verb forms, and provides 13 sample phrases.
The last edition featured more than 100,000 entries; this one has about 70,000. Many archaic terms have been eliminated, and outmoded slang, such as randy and coot, has been dropped in favor of such newer terms as clueless and wacko. The 4,000 new words include backlash, cyberspace, in-line skates, spandex, and veejay. Some reflect a multicultural influence from Asian, African, or Native American cultures (yakuza a Japanese gangster, Lakota). New biographical subjects also reflect a multicultural emphasis: Yassir Arafat, Lady Murasaki, Crazy Horse, Arthur Ashe.
More than 1,000 color photographs, maps, and drawings illustrate entries. The photographs reflect our diverse society: tango is demonstrated by an Asian couple, athlete shows a man racing in a wheelchair, and the pictured nurse is an Afro-American male. Twelve double-page spreads provide visual inserts on ever-popular subjects: knights and castles, dinosaurs, volcanoes, etc.
The format of entries has the entry word separated into syllables, pronunciation (a key is provided on every other page), part of speech, and definition. Common meanings are given first, and related terms are grouped together. Additional information might include examples, inflected forms, homophone notes, variant spellings, run-on entries, idioms, or special features. Boxed features include etymologies, synonyms, usage notes, and prefixes and suffixes. The "Word Bank" for bread lists 20 kinds (bagel to zwieback); "Word Family" lists words that are related (solo is linked to desolate, soliloquy, solitaire, etc.); and "Word Source" provides lists of English words derived from a foreign language.
The school edition included reinforcement exercises that have been eliminated. Also gone are sections on writing and grammar rules, punctuation, and word division. These style rules have been replaced with a "Student Reference" section featuring color maps and charts of U.S. presidents, chemical elements, geological eras, and mathematical formulas. Special inserts on weights and measures and military ranks are found within the alphabetical listing.
Middle-school students will be attracted to this work. Its color illustrations make it much more appealing than Webster's New World Student's Dictionary (Macmillan, 1992; formerly Webster's New World Dictionary for Young Adults), Merriam-Webster's Intermediate Dictionary (1994), The American Heritage Student Dictionary (Houghton, 1994), or the Macmillan Dictionary for Students (1984). The Harcourt Brace Student Dictionary (1994; formerly the Lincoln Writing Dictionary for Children) also has attractive color illustrations but only 35,000 entries, because a lot of space is devoted to quotations from authors. The Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary will complement most middle-school and public library collections. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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This is the best Children's Dictionary for 8 - 12 year olds,
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This review is from: Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary (Hardcover)
I'm a 5th grade teacher. I've used and compared many different dicitonaries. The Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary is the best by far that I've ever seen. Recently I decided to buy dictionaries for my class. I looked at over 20 different student dictionaries. Some of the dictionaries I looked at were Merriam-Webster Children's Dictionary, MacMillan Dictionary for Students, American Heritage Student Dictionary, and Scholastic Children's Dictionary. None of these held a candle to the Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary. I took a list of over 200 words that my students couldn't find in our current dictionaries and I looked them up in each of the dictionaries I compared. There were two things I was looking for. First, I wanted to know which dictionary had most of these words. Second I wanted to know which dictionary struck the best balance defining the words in such a way that my students could understand them without loosing meaning or using langage that was too difficult for my students to understand. The Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary was the best in both categories by far. There is also a Thorndike-Barnhart Intermediate Dictionary. It has the same words and definitions as this dictionary but also includes a bunch of extras (maps, lists, and such) but costs almost twice as much. If yo've got the money to spend, it might be worth it, but the price seemed high to me for what additional information it offered.
50 of 51 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent!!!! And offered at an unbelievable price too!,
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This review is from: Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary (Hardcover)
I wanted to get a more advanced dictionary for my 3rd grade son since the current Children's Dictionary he has often did not contain words we looked up. At first my Children's Dictionary search did not bring me to this book. But I read a review which recommended this dictionary. It was by a 5th Grade Teacher (Shannon Bradford), who also has her review here. I did my own comparisons of about 4 different dictionaries I found in my search. Using just the online reviews and descriptions, I decided to go with this one. When I received it, I was SO PLEASED! The book is so interesting. The beautiful color pictures and overall layout makes it interesting and fun to lookup words. Just flipping through it makes you want to stop and look at the pictures. I would have paid twice what I did for it. ...
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Thorndike-Barnhart Jr. Dictionary is a winner!,
This review is from: Thorndike-Barnhart Junior Dictionary (Hardcover)
I bought this based on a recommendation by another reader, and I am so glad I did! My 10 year old is actually reading it for enjoyment, and doesn't hesitate to look up words anymore. The fact that there are pictures for some of the entries makes it enjoyable for her too. It's a nice, hardcover book that will be passed on to my 8 year old as well.
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