Houghton Mifflin Electronic Licensing - The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition by Editors of The American Heritage Dictionaries

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language,
Fourth Edition
Houghton Mifflin's premiere dictionary
by Editors of The American Heritage^® Dictionaries

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition is Houghton Mifflin's premiere dictionary. This authoritative work, the largest of the American Heritage^® dictionaries, contains over 200,000 boldface forms, and more than 33,000 written examples. The Fourth Edition incorporates more than 10,000 new words and senses. You can license the dictionary with audio pronunciations and over 900 of the carefully chosen pieces of color art that accompany the text of the actual dictionary. It continues to be frequently updated to reflect the constant change of the English language.

Houghton Mifflin also produces electronic versions of The American Heritage^® College Dictionary, Third Edition and The American Heritage^® Concise Dictionary, Third Edition. These are smaller versions of the AHD3 but still offer users authoritative, comprehensive coverage of the English Language.

Key Features:

• Over 200,000 boldface forms

Abbreviations
Antonyms
Biographical entries
Cross references
Derivational run-ons
Etymologies
Example sentences/citations
Field labels
Geographic entries
Geographic labels
Grammatical labels
Homographs
Idioms
Index forms

Indo-European roots
Inflections
Labels
Our Living Language Notes
Parts of speech
Phrasal verbs
Pronunciations
Regional or dialect notes
Semitic Roots
Synonyms
Usage labels
Usage notes
Variant spellings
Word histories

• The American Heritage^® Usage Panel: This group of some 200 distinguished educators, writers, and public speakers enriches this dictionary with their judgments concerning difficult or disputed usage. Most of its members are writers, editors, critics, or educators while others hold distinguished positions in law, government, diplomacy, medicine, science, business, and the arts.

Technical Specs:

Product	Available Electronic Version(s)	File Size	Images, File Types & Sizes	Other Associated Files
American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, The	XML with XSL FILTER VERSION	72 MB	1,834 JPG files, 21.7 MB AUDIO PRONUNCIATION [WAV] FILES AVAILABLE SEPARATELY (63,854 WAV files; 312.2 MB)	DTD INDEX