British empire modern English illustrated dictionary
Subtitle: comprising pronunciation (indicated by phonetic spelling), definitions of words frequently and infrequently employed by all English-speaking peoples, including such words as are confined to the vocabularies of the scholar and business man, also glossaries of technical terms in use in aeronautics, motoring, broadcasting, music, cricket, football, lawn tennis, golf, boxing, finance, synonyms and antonyms, contractions and abbreviations, foreign words, phrases, and quotations events of importance in poetry and prose, words commonly mis-spelt, common mispronunciations, and a very comprehensive list of alternative words in use in crosswords
By: joint editors: Rev. R. H. U. Bloor ... J. Slingsby Roberts [and] E. A. Nutt ...
Contributors: Bloor, Robert Henry Underwood.; Roberts, J. Slingsby.; Nutt, E. A.
Publisher: Syndicate publishing co., ltd.
Published: 1938
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1460
Subjects: English language -- Great Britain -- Colonies -- Dictionaries.