The Compact Oxford Russian Dictionary offers over 90,000 words and phrases, and 120,000 translations of contemporary Russian and English. It covers the words you need to know for everday use, carefully selected from findings from the Oxford Languages Tracker and the Oxford English Corpus. Also included are Russian and English-speaking culture and grammar supplements, giving lively and useful...

The dictionary includes 868 phraseological homonyms of different types. Each dictionary entry contains an interpretation of a phraseological unit, a type of categorical meaning, grammatical, stylistic characteristics, etc. Quotes from literary texts, the press, and colloquial speech are used as illustrations. There are no analogues to this dictionary in modern lexicography

There are often curious, sometimes unbelievable stories behind our terms, idioms and proverbs. Here you learn how the bloody events of the American Civil War gave us the dreaded deadlines, why we speak of butterflies in the stomach when we mean love, and why one should absolutely avoid bringing something to the trapeze.

This work is an attempt by the author to help linguists to master one of the many layers of English sports terminology, and to representatives of a wonderful game and journalists and TV commentators in Russia and the CIS who are covering, to improve their knowledge of English. The English-Russian encyclopedic dictionary of hockey terminology is not only a collection of a large number of hockey...

Based on the statements of authoritative Russian writers, philosophers, and public figures, the *Dictionary of the Russian Mentality* reconstructs the national characteristics of the Russian material, spiritual, and cultural environment, viewed against the backdrop of the European cultural values ??with which they intersect. Cultural distinctions and similarities are presented through an...

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Dictionary contains over 60 000 entries. Dictionary covers the following topics: commerce, banks and finance, stock market, currency exchange, marketing and management, insurance, and taxes.

This encyclopedic dictionary/handbook of linguistic terms and concepts represents a first integrated edition on Russian language with an educational character. The dictionary contains not only commentary, but also descriptions of general basic concepts and concepts of Russian linguistics. It is accessible to a wide range of readers: advanced high school students, language teachers, students...

The 'Explanatory Dictionary of Russian Word Formation' is a first in the history of Russian dictionaries: it is the first dictionary which has information on affixes in Russian. It includes 1,892 morphemes (the smallest unit of meaning in a language) which function as word-building units in four parts of speech: nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs. The dictionary contains semantic...