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Chambers 21st Century Dictionary Version 1.0 © Chambers Harrap Publisher Ltd 2003

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This highly acclaimed dictionary is newly revised and offers language mavens a unique opportunity to delve into the most up-to-date, contemporary English usage. Comprehensive, easy-to-use, and free of jargon, the 21st Century Dictionary emphasizes the written and spoken English of everyday situations. The perfect reference for any word lover. Special features: Clear definitions in straightforward English. Up-to-the-minute information on how words are used. Supported by Chambers Wordtrack and The British National Corpus 100 Million word database. Innovative page design gets you to the right information fast. Hundreds of usage notes, word histories, idioms, and help with pronunciation, spelling and grammar.

Robert Allen is an experienced lexicographer and writer on language, now working from Edinburgh. After ten years on the Oxford English Dictionary he edited a major new edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, was an associate editor of the Oxford Companion to English Language and directed work on Chambers 21st Century Dictionary.

As a freelance writer and editor he has been a consultant for a number of major publishing houses. He has written an updated version of Fowler's Modern English Usage and writes articles on the modern use of English in English Today and other journals. He is an honorary research fellow at the Department of English Language at the University of Glasgow.


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Robert Allen (born 1944) is a British lexicographer who has written, edited, and published a wide range of books about the English language. He was formerly a senior editor for the Oxford English Dictionary who became a freelance writer and consultant in 1996.

His works include a new edition of the Concise Oxford Dictionary, and a revision of Modern English Usage.

3.1.3. Chambers 21st Century Dictionary (CTCD), Revised Edition (1999)

This revision of the first edition of Chambers’ 21st Century Dictionary is, the compilers claim, not a direct successor of the Chambers Twentieth Century Dictionary whose first edition came in 1901. It is a more modern dictionary in some ways. It has adopted sense numbers rather than separating senses with a semicolon, has dropped its strongly analytical macrostructure, and has begun to include example phrases and sentences where they are deemed necessary. However, definitions remain highly compact and traditional, and one gets the impression that this dictionary still owes a great deal to those earlier editions of Chambers in its basic structure and style. This is the only one of the six dictionaries not to be formally associated with a particular corpus.