Groups of German and English words in a particular subject area are illustrated on the same or opposite page.

Now fully revised and updated and featuring more than 55,000 entries, these foreign language dictionaries feature hundreds of new words reflecting today's cultural, political, and technological changes plus contemporary idioms and expressions. Revised reissue.

Containing 15,000 headwords, each entry in this dictionary provides the German equivalents, variants and contexts, as well as the degree of currency/rarity of the idiomatic expression.

This new edition provides an up-to-date and complete picture of contemporary German, including spelling changes ratified in 1996. Featured are more than 260,000 words, sample sentences, and maps. Thumb-indexed.