The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary offers a complete guide to the French and English languages, from general to specialist and technical terminology, from foreign language to slang. The dictionary makes accessible every aspect of the French-speaking world of today, and respectively the English-speaking one, through meticulous description of their languages and their cultural institutions. Convenience and Easy-access Layout: • Authoritative coverage of over 175,000 words and phrases, and over 270,000 translations • In-text notes on points of usage, grammar and constructions • In-text cultural notes on life in the French-speaking world • Aid sections helping in understanding idiomatic phrases, compound nouns, and abbreviations • Completely updated to include the very latest vocabulary • Easy-access design of the word definitions The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary is utilized by MSDict Viewer - an innovative dictionary reader specially designed to combine high data compression for memory restricted devices with a fast search algorithm, and user-friendly interface with amazing speed.