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| Author: Merriam-webster
Brand: Merriam Webster
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
Buy New: $14.93
You Save: $7.02 (32%)
Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 3803
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 11 Revised
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 1664
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.3 x 2.2
ISBN: 0877798079
Dewey Decimal Number: 423
UPC: 081413008074
EAN: 9780877798071
Publication Date: July 30, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 50 Years of Use March 17, 2006
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is the most contemporary of dictionaries. I used the previous edition for 50 years, tried all others and always came back to this dictionary. My previous edition was falling apart. So when the 11th Edition was published I was elated. I purchased a copy for me and one for each of my grandchildren as a high school graduation gift.
Just right: the convenient version of a brand-name standard January 17, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
The name "Webster's" long ago passed into the public domain, but three dictionaries -- and the Merriam-Webster brand -- survive as the lineal descendants of Noah Webster's original 19th-century dictionaries, the first dictionaries of American English, which have been in print continuously for almost two centuries. The 225,000-word "Collegiate Dictionary," now in its 11th edition, is the conveniently abridged harback version of the brand-name standard. The other versions are the 450,000-word "Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged," which "Collegiate Dictionary" abridges; and the 75,000-word pocket-sized paperback, whose contents are a subset of this version.
If the unabridged version is too much, and the pocket-sized paperback is too little, this version is just right. I keep the paperback version handy on my desk for ready reference (along with a thesaurus, a style manual, and a usage dictionary). But on the shelf nearby, within easy reach, I keep a more extensive basic reference set, including the heftier hardbound "Collegiate Dictionary." When clear and simple communication is the goal, this version is a good check against writing that is getting too high and mighty; if a word does not appear here, I think twice about using it, keeping in mind the Fowler brothers' first "general principle" of good writing: "Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched."
If you are buying one and only one dictionary, go with this version: it is more complete than the paperback version, yet stays within the realm of familiar words. But if you can manage, I recommend also stocking the paperback version. Keep the hardbound version on the shelf, within reach, and consult it as necessary; and keep the paperback version at your fingertips for readier, more routine reference.
 Great Buy June 2, 2004
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
great buy for the price. the book itself is the normal run-of-the-mill merriam-webster. best of all dictionaries. the real treat is the disc it comes with. very helpful when a word is quickly needed.
 Good Dictionary Bad Tabs August 14, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I liked the dictionary but was highly dissapointed to see that the tabs do not start at the start of the letter. why would you have tabs and not put them in the right place. it sucks.
My favorite October 14, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I am an EFL teacher and have dictionaries of different publishers. MW9 was my first dictionary of a kind and it started the life-long romance with this beautiful piece of lexicography. The 11th edition is a step forward,the only thing lacking being the list of colleges and universities in US and Canada, which I do miss. Otherwise, the only competition this dictionary can have is the new edition of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary by OUP, but I still think MW11 is more up-to-date and interesting to use.
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