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The greatest name in foreign language dictionaries is Cassell, the preeminent publisher of dictionaries for over 120 years.

For fast, easy reference and comprehensive coverage, Cassell’s is unbeatable. With entries covering daily conversation as well as technical and professional terms, this handy pocket-sized dictionary is the only reference you need while traveling, studying, or working.

Cassell’s is portable, easy to read and full of helpful usage information that’s simple to access. This invaluable volume, backed by the world’s foremost language authority, is the best pocket guide available to the French language.

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The Collins Robert French Unabridged Dictionary is simply the best French dictionary you can own. Here’s why:

More than 820,000 entries and translations. The Collins Robert French Unabridged Dictionary gives you comprehensive coverage of both French and English and the most up-to-date business, political, and technical terms. Native French and English speakers worked side by side to create a balanced treatment of both languages and to make authentic and appropriate translations.

Most consistently updated. This edition has been extensively revised and updated to cover all the vocabulary of today’s French, including new phrases and indicators. In addition, this Unabridged edition includes exhaustive coverage of key works, and full treatment of irregular forms of verbs, nouns, and adjectives to create the most complete and accurate picture of real language available today.

More colloquial usage than any other French dictionary. With its emphasis on current French and English, both written and spoken, including all areas of modern life and featuring regional usage, the dictionary gives you the edge in finding the correct translation.

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This Ultralingua French dictionary includes over 185,000 detailed translations for about 85,000 headword and 17,000 synonyms. Click on any word in a translation to look it up, conjugate it, add it to your flashcards, or search for usage examples online. Conjugate thousands of French verbs in all standard forms. Create custom flashcards to memorize vocabulary lists, verb forms, and more. Define and translate French words in email, web browsers, PDF files, documents, and more with the hotkey.

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This Ultralingua French dictionary includes over 185,000 detailed translations for about 85,000 headword and 17,000 synonyms. Click on any word in a translation to look it up, conjugate it, add it to your flashcards, or search for usage examples online. Conjugate thousands of French verbs in all standard forms. Create custom flashcards to memorize vocabulary lists, verb forms, and more. Define and translate French words in email, web browsers, PDF files, documents, and more with the hotkey.

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This French-English dictionary includes over 270,000 detailed translations for about 85,000 headwords. Click on any word in a translation to look it up, conjugate it, add it to your flashcards, or search for usage examples online. Conjugate thousands of French and English verbs in all standard forms. Create custom flashcards to memorize vocabulary lists, verb forms, and more. Define and translate French and English words in email, web browsers, PDF files, documents, and more with the hotkey.

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This French-English dictionary includes over 270,000 detailed translations for about 85,000 headwords. Click on any word in a translation to look it up, conjugate it, add it to your flashcards, or search for usage examples online. Conjugate thousands of French and English verbs in all standard forms. Create custom flashcards to memorize vocabulary lists, verb forms, and more. Define and translate French and English words in email, web browsers, PDF files, documents, and more with the hotkey.

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Completely updated! The ultimate reference for advanced students of French–or anyone wishing to master the French language. Modern and comprehensive, the “Larousse Advanced Dictionary” is aimed at people who want to take their learning of French to the highest level. It stands apart from other dictionaries of its size thanks to its user-friendly and educational design. Included are 250,000 terms and references and over 400,000 translations. This dictionary contains boxed notes help clarify the most common expressions,insuring the correct usage every time. Every advanced learner of French will find that this is THE dictionary of French language and culture.

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The Larousse Concise Dictionary: French-english / English-French is the ideal reference for anyone who wishes to learn or become more fluent in contemporary French.

Key features in thsi updated edition include: 100,000 entries and 130,000 translations; revised cultural notes providing essential background; information for the American reader; clean easy-to-read design; French verb conjugation tables.

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Acclaimed by language professionals the world over, the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary has long been the market leader. Using the statistical evidence provided by vast electronic databanks of language currently being written and spoken, our expert editors have made it the most comprehensive, reliable, and up-to-date dictionary of French and English available today. This fully updated fourth edition has even better coverage of the language than ever before, with improved treatment of acronyms and EU terminology, as well as thousands of new words in both English and French. A must for anyone studying the French language, this dictionary has been tailored to the needs of students in consultation with key academic advisors. This edition contains even more of the useful information for language students or part-time residents abroad, including sample bills and rental agreements. By far the most up-to-date and complete French dictionary of its size, it will provide one-stop shopping for all your language needs.

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This highly useful bilingual thesaurus is aimed at all English-speaking learners and users of French at intermediate and more advanced levels. Structured in a uniquely helpful way, it is arranged thematically, with extensive subdivisions into topic categories. Two alphabetical indexes of more than 8,000 words each, one listing English vocabulary and the other French, help readers find what they’re looking for easily. This is the best bilingual thesaurus available Like the best thesauri, it gives not only analogous words but analogous phrases and expressions as well; moreover it explains in what contexts the different synonyms should be used.

Contains a wealth of information. Let’s say you want to look up the French for the word “difficult.” You may know that this translates into French as “difficile” but may be curious about other, synonymous words that could be used to mean “difficult” in slightly different contexts. Look up “difficult” in the English-French index at the back of the book, and you’re directed to a section that gives you a range of synonymous words and tells you when to use them. Explains nuances and contexts In this way it’s like a very elaborate dictionary, with phrases as well as words. Easy to use in French and English There’s not only a long English-French index, but a long French-English one as well, so you can come at it from either language, to find your lists of synonyms in either English or French. Moreover, it gives American English expressions as well as British English ones, wherever they differ.

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