Author: Dianne Bardsley

Published: 2005

Publisher: Oxford University press

Format: Paperback

Pages:

Suitable: Upper Primary & Secondary Ages 10 to 16

Description:

The only thesaurus available specifically compiled for New Zealand school students, The New Zealand School Thesaurus contains more than 150,000 similar or related words, and also contains antonyms for many of the headwords. Word usage is included with example phrases to show how the headword is used in context. In addition to this, the book draws its ultimate authority from the vast resources of The Oxford English Dictionary and its continually updated database, with New Zealand material drawn from The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary and the databases of the New Zealand Dictionary Centre in Wellington.