Webster's New World dictionary of American English
[book]
\ Victoria Neufeldt, editor in chief ; David B. Guralnik, editor in chief emeritus.
3rd college ed.
New York
: Webster's New World : Distributed by Prentice Hall Trade
, 1988.
xxvi, 1574 p
:illus.
Revised edition of: Webster's New World dictionary of the American language.
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