HarperCollins Spanish Dictionary: Spanish-English/English-Spanish (Mass Market Paperback)

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The HarperCollins Rack Dictionary offers up-to-date coverage of today's language with over 40,000 entries and 70,000 translations. The easy-to-use format contains commonly used phrases and idioms, plus irregular verb forms, and the most common abbreviations, acronyms, and geographic names.

The HarperCollins Rack Dictionary is targeted to students, travelers, and professionals looking for a quick refresher. Economically priced and packaged in an easy-to-carry paperback format, this dictionary is the best buy on a crowded shelf.

The Rack editions will continue the new look and cover design of Concise and College editions to present a unified, competitive branded look.

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HarperCollins Publishers is one of the world's leading English-language publishers with headquarters in New York. The company is part of News America Publishing Group, a division of News Corporation. The house of Mark Twain, the Bronte Sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Maurice Sendak, HarperCollins was founded in New York City in 1817 by the brothers James and John Harper. The worldwide book group, which was formed following News Corporation's acquisition of the British publisher William Collins in January 1990, has significant publishing interests in the U.S., Canada, the U.K. and Australia.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: CollinsRef; 1st edition (August 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 006273749X
• ISBN-13: 978-0062737496
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #595,984 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars PORTABLE, WELL-ORGANIZED, AND NICELY EDITED, February 28, 2003

By	reviewer (Zurich, Switzerland.) - See all my reviews

This edition of "HarperCollins Spanish Dictionary" will be treasured by anyone who understands the meaning of quality and value. The book is well-edited, well-organized, ultra-portable, and inexpensive.
With its generous translations, which spanned through several thousands of headwords, there is nothing which should be included in it that was excluded. From idioms to phrases; acronyms to slangs; every entry was accurately translated. As well, there is comprehensive analyses of all the Spanish irregular verbs, which it handled.
The give-away price of this dictionary means that it is affordable to anybody who needs it. It is a priceless companion: an accurate gem, which I would recommend for both students and travellers.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easily the best Spanish pocket dictionary on the market, February 10, 2002

By	"situveux" (KS United States) - See all my reviews

I can not take my 2000 page dictionary to Spanish class everyday, so I had to find a good replacement. I believe that the Harpercollins dictionary is just that. The font size is just right for me along with the easy to follow definitions. The only possible drawback is that sometimes definitions are only applicable to certain Spanish speaking countries. This however is something that will probably never be able to be solved, especially when dealing with a pocket sized dictionary. However, for general everyday use, this is a must buy.

19 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as some reviewers might have you think!, September 11, 2003

By	Douglas Wilson (Does it matter? Really?) - See all my reviews

This is an okay dictionary. Perhaps the reviewer "Ritter" may have had a different edition or the hardcover, because I just looked at the paperback along with about twenty others and found it definitely wanting.

As a former interpreter of three languages other than Spanish, and now a student of Spanish and French...I have always gauged my dictionaries almost exclusively on cuss words. My logic has been that if they include words that anyone being polite will never use, then they will have more of what one will use on an everyday basis. While another reviewer noted the swear words (including those he had not even thought of....) I only saw these from Spanish to English here and not vice versa. Think of the worst English and it probably is not here. In fact it was only in one of about twenty works I looked at tonight in the bookstore and I settled on the "Larouse, Concise dictionary," isbn 2-03-542017-2 9 paperback or (84-8016-129-9), and this is the one I bought instead.

I don't know how often I use the word "zit" or crampon (which is a cognate anyway), in English and am willing to bet that though I do have some class, I would be more likely to use the cusswords than these. However, most of the dictionaries I looked at simply did not have these and even what appeared to be a "contemporary' usage dico still left much to desire.

Most of them (the dictionaries) cover the necessities and I've always liked the Langenscheidt books, though they are not all thorough-they hold up great, and are more thorough per word than this...still, I liked the fact that the Larouse went from English to Spanish, since my native tongue is English. I wouldn't know where to look going the other way around.

Take the reviews with a grain of salt and think of your ultimate purpose, then get one that meets that and has thorough explanations and not simply one word traslations for anthing other than cognates or very simple.