The American Heritage Abbreviations Dictionary

Newly updated, The American Heritage(R) Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition, presents some 20,000 terms that appear in text messages, chatrooms, Web sites, sports statistics, travel brochures, airports, personal ads, and countless other places in a world where shorthand is the true universal language.

An updated edition of current acronyms, abbreviations, and Americanisms includes some 19,000 entries that encompass a wide range of blends, clippings, foreign words, initialisms, numericals, and truncations.

Includes sections with brief biographical and geographic entries, and abbreviations.

For those who prefer large print, this new edition of the popular AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY provides authoritative up-to-date information in a large-print, easy-to-read format. It includes more than 35,000 definitions, with the most current, central meaning given first in each entry.

A comprehensive American English dictionary.

Rev. ed. of: American Heritage dictionary of the English language. New college ed., c1982 Includes biographical and geographical sections.