Product Review
The Oxford Spanish Dictionary, Third Edition is wonderfully bound, and the presentation is beautiful. The system of bold, color, and italicized fonts helps the user locate information quickly even though the font size is quite small. The dictionary also contextualizes most definitions so that you have the meanings in different situations and grammatical constructions.
This is the one of the best, if not the best, bilingual dictionary ever written. When you look up a word, it discriminates the usage of that word and tells you how to correctly translate that word into the target language. Quite often words are polysemantic, that is there is more than one way to translate them, but if you are not explained under what situation each word is used, then you won't choose the right word. This product does an excellent job in doing this.
The subheading for each "sentido" (sense) in which the verb is used is followed by a parenthetical in which equivalents in Spanish are given. After the parenthetical, the dictionary then gives the English translation and a long list of very helpful examples of usages in that particular sense. These are invaluable in accurately pinpointing which construction to use.
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