Chambers Students' Dictionary features comprehensive and advanced coverage of vocabulary from various subjects at GCSE and Scottish Standard Grade level. Definitions explain the concepts without oversimplifying, while additional notes explore the origin and development of hundreds of words. A helpful supplement focuses on writing in academic and other contexts, encouraging students to convey their knowledge skilfully and effectively.Chambers Students' Dictionary not only has been thoroughly researched, but it has also been compiled with the advice and editorial input of teachers, ensuring that it meets the real needs of students today.

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This internationally renowned reference publisher continues its celebrated tradition of excellence into the present day with such informative and authoritative works as the Chambers Crossword Dictionary, Chambers Encyclopedia, Chambers Biographical Dictionary and the all-new Chambers Dictionary of Quotations. Chambers is based in Edinburgh, as it always has been, and employs editors with a wide range of skills on dictionaries and other titles for a variety of users, including students and teachers of English as a foreign or second language. As well as the core business of publishing dictionaries and thesauruses, Chambers also publishes a range of titles on grammar and usage, single-volume reference titles on science, history, biography and quotations, as well as titles for Scrabble(R) and crosswords.