Database Information

• Database title:

  American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (Fourth Edition)

• Coverage:

  See below.

• Description:

  This database is the online version of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. As one of the primary sources available to describe current American use of the English language, it includes standard entries, many entries for relatively new words, biographical entries, and entries for institutions of higher education, including mailing addresses. It also provides entries for many Indo-European root words, showing relationships among words going back over several thousand years. Many entries include lists of synonyms, usage notes, or examples of usage taken from published works of well-known writers.