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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed.

Completely updated and redesigned, the new Eleventh Edition of the Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary sets a new standard in electronic dictionaries with dynamic new content, a striking new look, and a fresh platform for easy viewing and accessibility.

Designed to help you communicate effectively, it combines high-quality language reference with state-of-the-art search technology, providing instant access to over 200,000 words and 500,000 synonyms.

Easy to Understand Definitions
Immediate access to clear and concise definitions for over 200,000 words, which includes inflected words. Usage paragraphs provide guidelines for words with confused or disputed usage.

Accurate Pronunciation
Headwords and definitions spoken with Franklin's ClariSpeech™ technology.

Authoritative Spelling
Discover the correct spelling for a word based on phonetically-entered words and Franklin's quick search and retrieval technology.

Interactive Learning with Word Games
Build your vocabulary while playing Letris, Word Dozer and other interactive games.

Comprehensive Grammar Guide and more
Grammar Guide (with Grammar quizzes), and over 20 tables of useful information, at your fingertips. The Confusables? feature provides you with instant access to homonyms and homophones.

Franklin's Advanced Thesaurus
Expand your vocabulary. Use alternate word choices with a complete thesaurus containing 500,000 synonym returns (including Classmates™). Synonym paragraphs explain different shades of meaning between words.

Concise Columbia Encyclopedia, 4th Ed.
Over 16,000 articles supplying you with a wealth of cultural, historical, biographical, and scientific information. Bookmark features allows you to keep track of challenging entries. Cross-references included for easy look-up.

Great Documents of American History
Contains the complete text of over 60 of the most important documents and speeches that have shaped America. Search by subject, people related to the document, year, document type, words and phrases found in the document text, or any combination of the above.

Versatile and Expandable
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